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| author | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2007-06-01 13:43:41 -0400 |
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| committer | Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org> | 2007-06-01 13:43:41 -0400 |
| commit | fb10e0c797b649dc036bc0432dc77cffaabbc56d (patch) | |
| tree | 46924f0fdadc7c65f992ac7a6e467f6d3d6c43c0 /doc | |
| parent | 6f183cb9847082eab5aa4e27e25629aca31af05c (diff) | |
| download | pacman-fb10e0c797b649dc036bc0432dc77cffaabbc56d.tar.xz | |
Drop --usesudo option and add some checks related to ASROOT
Drop the --usesudo option and use it by default if running as a non-root
user. Check the usage of the --asroot option and do not allow it to be used
as a normal user. A few other small fixes, including a typo in $confdir.
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/makepkg.8 | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/doc/makepkg.8 b/doc/makepkg.8 index 2f7c359b..9135be21 100644 --- a/doc/makepkg.8 +++ b/doc/makepkg.8 @@ -101,11 +101,11 @@ Install missing dependencies using \fBpacman\fP. When missing build-time or run-time dependencies are found, \fBpacman\fP will try to resolve them. If successful, the missing packages will be downloaded and installed. .TP -.B \-S, --usesudo -Use \fBsudo\fP to perform all operations that require \fBpacman\fP. This is -useful for \fB--install\fP, \fB--rmdeps\fP, and \fB--syncdeps\fP. If you are -building packages as a non-root user as recommended, this option should be used -if using any option that calls \fBpacman\fP. +.B \--asroot +This option allows you to run \fBmakepkg\fP as root. You should not normally +run \fBmakepkg\fP as root unless you know what you are doing. For any +operations that require \fBpacman\fP, \fBsudo\fP is normally used; this switch +will call \fBpacman\fP directly. .TP .B \--noconfirm (Passed to \fBpacman\fP) Prevent \fBpacman\fP from waiting for user input |