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aarnt / octoxbps

A Qt-based XBPS front end
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OctoXBPS always prompts for password on start #23

Closed dexgs closed 2 years ago

dexgs commented 2 years ago

Every time OctoXBPS is started, it displays a password prompt in order to authenticate running xbps-install -Syy to synchronize the local and remote package databases. It is my understanding that it is only meant to show this prompt if it cannot find pkgdb*.plist in /var/db/xbps, so it seems like showing this prompt every time the program starts is not intended.

dexgs commented 2 years ago

I've identified the cause of the issue. OctoXBPS only checks for the existence of pkgdb*.plist in var/db/xbps if it decides that it is running on Void Linux or Trident Linux. It detects Void Linux based on whether or not the string, PRETTY_NAME="void" occurs in /etc/os-release. However, Void Linux recently changed this file and it now contains PRETTY_NAME="Void Linux" instead.

dexgs commented 2 years ago

Here is the commit in which the change is made: https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/commit/1dfc401d1237120e8e936627e7e28d2441916e80

dexgs commented 2 years ago

I have opened a pull request which resolves the issue: https://github.com/aarnt/octoxbps/pull/24

aarnt commented 2 years ago

Merged pull request. Thanks!