Bug#996542: Post install fails when run as non-root user and does not respect PKG_ROOT

[Michael Biebl]

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Am 15.10.21 um 07:53 schrieb Glenn Washburn:
> Package: udev
> Version: 247.3-5
> 
> Probably the easiest solution would be to exit early from the post
> install if the current user is not root. There's probably a more subtle
> fix that preserves more functionality (eg. maybe updating the hwdb in
> PKG_ROOT?), what ever gets the post install to not fail in this
> scenario works for me.

Package installations need to be done as root.
I don't think the package would benefit if we'd litter the maintainer 
scripts with id checks.

Please elobare what the use case is here?


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