Running makepkg as root.

theonlylawislove · 2017-10-11 03:43:03

I understand it was disabled, and I get it.

However, on a build server (Ubuntu), I need to generate .SRCINFO and update checksums in PKGBUILD. I have to use "base/arch" Docker image to run the command, and I'd like to disable that requirement.

Is there an environment variable I can set? Small modification to the bash script?

theonlylawislove · 2017-10-11 03:52:11

Or, is there a way to run makepkg on Ubuntu? How portable is it?

phw · 2017-10-11 05:25:32

theonlylawislove wrote:

However, on a build server (Ubuntu), I need to generate .SRCINFO and update checksums in PKGBUILD. I have to use "base/arch" Docker image to run the command, and I'd like to disable that requirement.

What about changing the user in the Docket image?

Not sure about if makepkg can run on Ubuntu, but I would probably just give this a try to compile and run it there

Jristz · 2017-10-11 05:36:44

does docker have a nobody user?

maybe use that instead because makepkg can't run as root by all-... by design.

Allan · 2017-10-11 06:06:35

makepkg will run on ubuntu.

eschwartz · 2017-10-11 22:07:04

It may run, but you might find it difficult to handle make/depends if you want to actually build anything... not to mention building against system libraries that only make sense in the context of creating a package *for* Ubuntu...

fukawi2 · 2017-10-12 01:13:32

Sounds like OP is running makepkg inside an Arch Docker container on Ubuntu? I'm not up-to-speed with Docker, but you should be able to run makepkg as any user inside the container?

Arch Linux

#1 2017-10-11 03:43:03

Running makepkg as root.

#2 2017-10-11 03:52:11

Re: Running makepkg as root.

#3 2017-10-11 05:25:32

Re: Running makepkg as root.

#4 2017-10-11 05:36:44

Re: Running makepkg as root.

#5 2017-10-11 06:06:35

Re: Running makepkg as root.

#6 2017-10-11 22:07:04

Re: Running makepkg as root.

#7 2017-10-12 01:13:32

Re: Running makepkg as root.

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