fix: No second sudo password prompt while installing yay

makepkg -si installs with sudo -k, which forgets the cached password.
Build with makepkg, install with sudo pacman -U.
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theupriser committed 2026-09-25 08:35:54 +02:00
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@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ one per merged pull request.
unchanged, when single user mode is off; the single user wallet is kept
and reused next time.
- Moved from the SteamOS theme, where it only helped without any wallet.
- **fix: No second sudo password prompt while installing yay**
- `makepkg -si` installs with `sudo -k`, which forgets the cached password;
yay is now built with makepkg and installed with `sudo pacman -U`.
- **docs: LICENSE.md** with the MIT license the README already named.
- **chore: No more `setup-gamescope-boot.sh` release asset**
- Only `steamify.sh` is published; the old name from before 0.9.0 is gone.
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@@ -41,8 +41,13 @@ bootstrap_yay() {
return 1
fi
# Build only, then install it ourselves: makepkg -i runs `sudo -k pacman`,
# which forgets the cached sudo password and asks for it again.
info "Building and installing yay (this runs makepkg as your user, not root)..."
if (cd "$tmp_dir/yay-bin" && makepkg -si --noconfirm); then
local -a pkgs
if (cd "$tmp_dir/yay-bin" && makepkg --noconfirm) &&
mapfile -t pkgs < <(cd "$tmp_dir/yay-bin" && makepkg --packagelist | grep -v -- '-debug-') &&
sudo pacman -U --noconfirm "${pkgs[@]}"; then
ok "yay installed."
rm -rf "$tmp_dir"
return 0