makechrootpkg: preserve SSH_AUTH_SOCK to support ssh operations #69
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Without this patch, users who are performing operations over SSH will experience failures. This can cause unexpected results for users who are, for example, building packages using
makechrootpkg
, and force all connections to the specified remote(s) ovr SSH, with a stanza similar to below in their Git configuration:Yes, users could be told to update their
sudo
configuration to preserve the environment variable, however, I find that requiring users to update their configuration in order to work with this tool to be less than desirable.