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FS#76836 - Stop depending on sudo

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Polarian (Polarian) - Thursday, 15 December 2022, 12:26 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Thursday, 15 December 2022, 12:38 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category makepkg
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 6.0.2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:
Currently makepkg depends solely on sudo in order to escalate permissions, AUR helpers such as yay can use both sudo and doas to escalate permissions. Could makepkg be updated so that it can also use doas to escalate permissions instead of depending solely on sudo?

Steps to Reproduce:
N/A
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Thursday, 15 December 2022, 12:38 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  makepkg.conf PACMAN_AUTH

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