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robmaloy

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-05-14

Posts: 263

makepkg: change "sudo" to "sudo -E"?

Would changing "sudo" to "sudo -E" (-E to preserve environment variables in the makepkg provide any security risks?

this might be convenient to users who use $http_proxy and/or $ftp_proxy when running makepkg with the -s (sync deps) switch

just a thougt...

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Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,487

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Re: makepkg: change "sudo" to "sudo -E"?

Hmm, sudo is only used in makepkg for installing packages through pacman.  So I can't really see any problems with this at first glance...

It is an easy patch if you want to submit it to the pacman-dev list.

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robmaloy

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2008-05-14

Posts: 263

Re: makepkg: change "sudo" to "sudo -E"?

how do i do that?

btw, this is teh patch
http://rob.kingofnerds.net/makepkg_sudo.patch

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Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: makepkg: change "sudo" to "sudo -E"?

The Arch mailing lists are listed here: http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/

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