Hi Magnus --
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 02:41:01PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 12:29 AM, Linus Arver <linusar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I want to compile HABS packages with the 'makeahpkg' script but the uses
> > of 'sudo' require me to enter my root password every once in a while.
> > This is annoying because I cannot just do
> >
> > ./makeahpkg -c -- $(cblrepo build base | tail -n +2)
> >
> > and let it run overnight. In fact, at one instance the script just
> > exited on its own because I did not enter the root pasword in time. Is
> > there a workaround for this?
>
> The easiest way is to remove password prompting while building. That
> does compromise security somewhat though.
How do you do remove password prompting entirely? I could change the
timeout for sudo but that feels a bit hacky.
> You can also try to run the
> script as root, then `sudo` becomes a no-op. The building uses a
> chroot, which is why root access is necessary.
I tried running the script as root, but then `makeahpkg` complains:
==> Creating updated database file 'repo.db.tar.gz'
*** Skipping build in /home/l/prog/foreign/habs/haskell-tagsoup
*** Building in /home/l/prog/foreign/habs/haskell-th-lift
:: Synchronizing package databases...
repo 23.3 KiB 0.00B/s 00:00 [##############] 100%
haskell 256.1 KiB 1778K/s 00:00 [##############] 100%
core is up to date
extra 1529.6 KiB 2.63M/s 00:01 [##############] 100%
community 2.0 MiB 3.10M/s 00:01 [##############] 100%
:: Starting full system upgrade...
there is nothing to do
==> ERROR: Running makepkg as root is a BAD idea and can cause
permanent,
catastrophic damage to your system. If you wish to run as root, please
use the --asroot option.
==> ERROR: Could not download sources.
This is probably from the call to "pacman -Syu --noconfirm" from line
598 in /usr/bin/makechrootpkg.
> > Also does anyone have recommendations for web storage services that
> > would work well with hosting my build of HABS packages? I've tried
> > DropBox but the current AUR package for it is unusable, at least with
> > Xmonad.
>
> There is always the option of using the pre-built packages.
> Information can be found at
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Haskell_package_guidelines#Haskell_packages
What I want to do is contribute built packages to HABS, as per your
message in
http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/arch-haskell/2012-March/001954.html .
Maybe I should start small and just manually give you links to packages
one at a time, but I imagine this could get tedious at some point...
whereupon I would need to find decent web storage/hosting.
-L
>
> /M
>
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