goreliu's fakefakeroot hack

[rolisoft]

goreliu's fakefakeroot hack

[RoliSoft]

As of commit aa4457a, pacaur is automatically installed on Arch.

[RoliSoft]

Hi,

I'm investigating alternatives, since his hack will not store the files as root in the archive, which might break some applications further down the line.

AUR has fakeroot-tcp, which seems to work, since the only issue with fakeroot was the lack of IPC, as far as I can tell:

$ yaourt -Sb fakeroot-tcp
$ sudo LD_PRELOAD=/root/libmockchroot.so pacman -U /tmp/yaourt-tmp-RoliSoft/fakeroot-tcp-1.20.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
$ whoami
RoliSoft
$ fakeroot whoami
root

There's also fakeroot-ng, which isn't in AUR, but exists as a rewrite of fakeroot. I'll have to test that one as well.

I'll try to update the hook script to setup a working yaourt as well, with the proper fakeroot-tcp out-of-the-box.

Sidenote: I know, but the %wheel line is commented out in Arch's sudoers. I've added code in the previous commit to uncomment it.

[SRGOM]

@RoliSoft Would you be willing to setup another aur helper (and not yaourt)? As shown here, yaourt is the least green, pacaur, aurutils, bauerbill being the most. I specifically don't like that yaourt by default doesn't even give the option of reading PKGBUILD file.

[cclements]

+1 for pacaur

[RoliSoft]

ba7d799 automatically installs the working fakeroot-tcp.

It doesn't install an AUR helper at this point, since I'm undecided which one to go with.

I'm also undecided on whether I should create a wrapper for pacman which includes the LD_PRELOAD, because right now, you can't directly install with makepkg -si, pacman will fail on the chroot issue. You'll need to do makepkg -s and install the package manually with LD_PRELOAD=... pacman -U *.pkg.xz.