Signed-off-by: Andres P <[email protected]>
---
doc/makepkg.conf.5.txt | 7 +++++++
etc/makepkg.conf.in | 11 +++++++++++
2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/makepkg.conf.5.txt b/doc/makepkg.conf.5.txt
index 753b179..b9a0c67 100644
--- a/doc/makepkg.conf.5.txt
+++ b/doc/makepkg.conf.5.txt
@@ -195,6 +195,13 @@ Options
*PKGEXT*, *SRCEXT*::
Do not touch these unless you know what you are doing.
+*PACMAN_AUTH*::
+ If makepkg needs to run pacman as root it will use the command
specified in
+ this value to call pacman when the user is not UID 0.
+ +
+ If present, `%p` will be replaced with the environmental variable
PACMAN and
+ whatever arguments makepkg needs to pass to PACMAN. Otherwise, both
PACMAN
+ and its arguments will be appended to the end of the command.
See Also
--------
diff --git a/etc/makepkg.conf.in b/etc/makepkg.conf.in
index f0d1c44..b8252a7 100644
--- a/etc/makepkg.conf.in
+++ b/etc/makepkg.conf.in
@@ -112,4 +112,15 @@ PURGE_TARGETS=(usr/{,share}/info/dir .packlist *.pod)
PKGEXT='@PKGEXT@'
SRCEXT='@SRCEXT@'
+#########################################################################
+# PRIVILEGE ESCALATION OPTIONS
+#########################################################################
+#
+# Default: call pacman using sudo(8)
+#
+#-- Authentication: specify a command that should enable running pacman as root
+# when needed
+PACMAN_AUTH="sudo %p"
+#PACMAN_AUTH="su -c '%p'"
+
# vim: set ft=sh ts=2 sw=2 et:
--
1.7.1
