FS#79346 - bell on sudo prompt from makepkg

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Alexander Clifton-Melhuish (smilerish) - Thursday, 10 August 2023, 12:23 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 02 September 2023, 11:52 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

Could a feature/option be added to makepkg to print a bell character when prompting for the user's password via sudo?

Compilation can take a long time and doesn't require attendance. If makepkg is invoked with -r or -i then it calls pacman via sudo and needs a password. After some time, sudo will time out and the operation needs to be run again.
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Saturday, 02 September 2023, 11:52 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  Can be handled with PACMAN_AUTH
Comment by Mortimer Houghton (Mortimer_Houghton) - Friday, 11 August 2023, 03:41 GMT
You should probably make feature requests in the pacman development mailing list: https://lists.archlinux.org/mailman3/lists/pacman-dev.lists.archlinux.org/
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Friday, 11 August 2023, 04:39 GMT
Do not post issues on pacman-dev. They will be ignored.
Comment by Alexander Clifton-Melhuish (smilerish) - Friday, 11 August 2023, 08:42 GMT
Just to add, I am aware of the previous feature request for _pacman_ [https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/41188] (also the two raised/copied on GitLab [https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/issues/?sort=created_date&state=all&search=bell]). The explanation there is that pacman is not intended to be run unattended, which makes sense.

I think this is different for makepkg, which often compiles binaries from source and so unattended operation must surely be assumed?
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 02 September 2023, 11:52 GMT
Use PACMAN_AUTH to provide your own wrapper with a bell.

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