Paul Hunnisett

Also, making it easier (possible?) to tweak /etc defaults/grub which would allow an unnatended reboot to the same image name - obviously @arnarg that's not exactly your use case, but...

bump?

Bump - any ideas/thoughts?

It seems like the fstab.config (and possibly the other hooks) only actually run when there is a default option in there as well. I got it working with a specific...

Looks like there's been a quite a few changes to makepkg since this - the patch won'y apply as is. Sigh - this is so much harder/more work than it...

Might have got it working with a super simple patch that just removes the root check. It's running now and it certainly runs as root, so, unless there are some...

Ubuntu would certainly be easier, but it makes too many choices for me that I don't like. That's what I love about Arch - I can set up the system...

It seems that whatever I've did to makepkg (literally just removed the root check - or so I thought...) has now caused damage to my system. To be fair, they...

I started getting issues with files no longer owned by packages ( which then caused problems with installing/upgrading packages because the files were already there...), or files not being found...

You can see the script I'm using for the commonly used "common"[here](https://pastebin.com/LP4sJfwB) Running makepkg as nobody is what the arch wiki recommends - directing you to [this page](http://allanmcrae.com/2015/01/replacing-makepkg-asroot/) - which...