Asking for sudo password, from pkgconfig?

Detlef_R · February 19, 2014, 6:44pm

When building ruby-gnome2, some of the packages ask/attempt to install
an RPM if it finds something missing. It will prompt for password for
sudo to do this.

On the system I am using, I do not want it to do this, as I don’t have
the libraries and don’t need these.

I know I could just delete those packages before I do the build, but is
there any flag or setting I could use to disable this behavior?

If not, I think it would be helpful, possibly a flag that disables the
automatic installation of RPM, and just spit out as an error what RPMs
in thinks should be installed.

I started looking at how this was working, is this being done in the
pkgconfig gem?

grantspeelman · March 9, 2014, 5:17am

Hi,

In [email protected]
“[ruby-gnome2-devel-en] Asking for sudo password, from pkgconfig?” on
Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:44:21 +0100,
Grant S. [email protected] wrote:

When building ruby-gnome2, some of the packages ask/attempt to install
an RPM if it finds something missing. It will prompt for password for
sudo to do this.

I know I could just delete those packages before I do the build, but is
there any flag or setting I could use to disable this behavior?

No. There is no flag to disable this behavior.

If not, I think it would be helpful, possibly a flag that disables the
automatic installation of RPM, and just spit out as an error what RPMs
in thinks should be installed.

How way do you like? Is using environment variable good?

I started looking at how this was working, is this being done in the
pkgconfig gem?

No. It is implemented in Ruby-GNOME2. See the following codes:

ruby-gnome/glib2/ext/glib2/extconf.rb at master · ruby-gnome/ruby-gnome · GitHub
ruby-gnome/glib2/lib/mkmf-gnome2.rb at master · ruby-gnome/ruby-gnome · GitHub
ruby-gnome/glib2/lib/mkmf-gnome2.rb at master · ruby-gnome/ruby-gnome · GitHub

Thanks,

kou

grantspeelman · September 1, 2014, 8:53pm

Sorry for the long delay, got side tracked with work… :>

Kouhei S. wrote in post #1139276:

Hi,

In [email protected]
“[ruby-gnome2-devel-en] Asking for sudo password, from pkgconfig?” on
Wed, 19 Feb 2014 18:44:21 +0100,
Grant S. [email protected] wrote:

When building ruby-gnome2, some of the packages ask/attempt to install
an RPM if it finds something missing. It will prompt for password for
sudo to do this.

I know I could just delete those packages before I do the build, but is
there any flag or setting I could use to disable this behavior?

No. There is no flag to disable this behavior.

If not, I think it would be helpful, possibly a flag that disables the
automatic installation of RPM, and just spit out as an error what RPMs
in thinks should be installed.

How way do you like? Is using environment variable good?

An environment variable would be great.

I started looking at how this was working, is this being done in the
pkgconfig gem?

No. It is implemented in Ruby-GNOME2. See the following codes:

github.com

ruby-gnome/ruby-gnome/blob/master/glib2/ext/glib2/extconf.rb#L19


      
          # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
          # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
          # Lesser General Public License for more details.
          #
          # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
          # License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
          # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
          
          
require 'pathname'
          
          
base_dir = Pathname(__FILE__).dirname.parent.parent.expand_path
          mkmf_gnome2_dir = base_dir + 'lib'
          
          
$LOAD_PATH.unshift(mkmf_gnome2_dir.to_s)
          
          
module_name = "glib2"
          package_id = "gobject-2.0"
          
          
require "mkmf-gnome"
          
          
unless required_pkg_config_package([package_id, 2, 12, 0],

github.com

ruby-gnome/ruby-gnome/blob/master/glib2/lib/mkmf-gnome2.rb#L531


      
          # Copyright (C) 2019 Ruby-GNOME Project Team
          #
          # This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
          # modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
          # License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
          # version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
          #
          # This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
          # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
          # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
          # Lesser General Public License for more details.
          #
          # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
          # License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
          # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
          
          
warn("mkmf-gnome2 is deprecated. Use mkmf-gnome instead.")
          require "mkmf-gnome"

github.com

ruby-gnome/ruby-gnome/blob/master/glib2/lib/mkmf-gnome2.rb#L454


      
          # Copyright (C) 2019 Ruby-GNOME Project Team
          #
          # This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
          # modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
          # License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
          # version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
          #
          # This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
          # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
          # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
          # Lesser General Public License for more details.
          #
          # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
          # License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
          # Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
          
          
warn("mkmf-gnome2 is deprecated. Use mkmf-gnome instead.")
          require "mkmf-gnome"

Thanks,

kou