Unconditional `sudo --preserve-env` breaks preinst/postinst hooks about pikaur HOT 5 CLOSED

--preserve-env is intended, so you can do stuff like MY_ENV=foo pikaur -S some-pkg, so i guess when running cmds as root some of the env vars should be excluded

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Do you have examples for variables that are useful to pass to pacman at all? Or are there other commands besides pacman that pikaur runs as root?

I'd rather opt-in than opt-out passing variables. Maybe something like pikaur --env MY_ENV=foo -S some-pkg, or a list of allowed variables in pikaur.conf?

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Thanks for reporting!
You can check with pikaur-git AUR package if it works for you now.

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i've just made the allow-list hardcoded by now: f457b7e#diff-3ea9f507b011ec8e3424ba3685ee193011e370fedd5ea290d5643d1aa49d10aeR18

if people would need more env vars - i'll make it configurable via the config file

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Thanks for the quick fix. No further issues with pikaur-git 👍

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