makepkg: add PACMAN_AUTH configurable setting for sudo elevation

If specified, this will be used no matter what. If not, then we check if
sudo exists and use that, or else fall back on su.

Implements FS#32621

Signed-off-by: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org>
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/doc/makepkg.conf.5.asciidoc b/doc/makepkg.conf.5.asciidoc
index 2c7a54db..76c27f6a 100644
--- a/doc/makepkg.conf.5.asciidoc
+++ b/doc/makepkg.conf.5.asciidoc
@@ -278,6 +278,14 @@ Options
 	`.tar.lzo`, `.tar.lrz`, `.tar.lz4`, `.tar.lz` and `.tar.Z`, or
 	simply `.tar` to disable compression entirely.
 
+**PACMAN_AUTH=()**::
+	Specify a command prefix for running pacman as root. If unset, makepkg will
+	check for the presence of sudo(8) and su(1) in turn, and try the first one
+	it finds.
+	+
+	If present, `%c` will be replaced with the shell-quoted form of the command
+	to run. Otherwise, the command to run is appended to the auth command.
+
 
 
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