Replacing “makepkg –asroot” | Allan McRae
allanmcrae.com › 2015 › 01Jan 19, 2015 · Get you PKGBUILD in your new build directory and run makepkg as the nobody user. You can do this using su but using sudo has the advantage of being able to alias this command. Installing sudo does not create a security risk as you are running as root! You also do not need to configure anything as root will have full sudo permissions by default 2. Build your package using:
Replacing “makepkg –asroot” | Allan McRae
allanmcrae.com/2015/01/replacing-makepkg-asroot19.01.2015 · Replacing “makepkg –asroot”. Posted in Pacman on 2015/01/19 by Allan. An alarming number of people have noticed, the pacman-4.2 release removed the --asroot option from makepkg. This means that you can no longer build packages as the root user. There are good reasons for this and the option was only included due to issue we had building ...