On 12/30/14, Magnus Therning <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I just noticed that `makepkg` no longer accepts '--asroot', does that > mean there now is no way to convince `makepkg` to build despite being > run as root? > > /M > > P.S. I am fully aware of the problems with building as root, but as I'm > only building packages I'm myself creating, and doing it in a docker > image, I feel I can live with the dangers... especially when it saves > me some work in setting up docker images. > > -- > Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 > email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx > twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus > > What gets measured, gets done. > -- Tom Peters > Building as root was disabled due to other changes.[1] It seems your use-case was either not anticipated or ignored. But you aren't the only one who got inconvenienced. Someone in the comments is building packages in a chroot on android which apparently has issues with fakeroot. Allan McRae suggested recompiling fakeroot with different options; I imagine if there was some way to trick makepkg into running as root, he'd've suggested that instead. [1] http://allanmcrae.com/2014/12/pacman-4-2-released/ -- Eli Schwartz
