su is terribad. In addition to reverting, this also removes support for
privilege escalation via su. If you want to use paccache as root and
fail to comprehend how much better sudo is than su, then run paccache
directly via su.
Fixes FS#35173.
This reverts commit 597286eb25.
Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
Avoids problems with one of the worst CLI tools ever created, su.
Fixes FS#34656.
Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
This removes the restriction on the length of the command line, as xargs
will work around by running multiple instances of the command for us.
As seen: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1232959
Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
Originally printed a leading \ before all path names as the `' would be
removed during the make. Using '' should be just as good as using `'.
paccache.sh.in:
die "cachedir \`%s' does not exist or is not a directory" "$cachedir"
paccache
die "cachedir \%s does not exist or is not a directory" "$cachedir"
Signed-off-by: William Giokas <1007380@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
The main motivation for this change is to allow this to be run as a cron
job.
Satisfies FS#29897 and some other undocumented requests for this.
Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
There's no reason to make these executable, and this also mimics what we
do in the scripts/ subdir.
Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dan@archlinux.org>
Add longopts and update usage. This removes the TODO item and
incorporates --help/--version into the standard option set.
Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
For consistency with the scripts/ directory, ensure that all bash
scripts use the same pre-build suffix.
Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner@archlinux.org>
