termux/termux-root-packages

setpriv support

agnostic-apollo opened this issue · 5 comments

agnostic-apollo commented

Are their any plans for setpriv from util-linux being included in official termux repo anytime in future? or are their compatibility issues? somebody added a patch for it long ago here, not sure if others are required.

I was planning to run automated apt commands with termux context from tasker with root using this and only setpriv is missing. I tested the aarch64 binary provided in the link and everything worked including apt. But the binary is likely compiled with musl-libc.

That's the only binary missing from termux to get everything running, if there are no official plans, I'll have to host it on my own repo.

Thanks

RossComputerGuy commented

setpriv uses a system call which requires root

agnostic-apollo commented

Yeah I'm aware of that. I posted it here because util-linux is provided through here. I'm sure some other binaries provided through here also require root, like busybox mount...

RossComputerGuy commented

But util-linux is different, it provides things like kill, more, ls, rev, cal, etc. But root requring packages are in the termux-root repo, not this repo. I'd say it won't be added but it could be added to termux-root by configuring util-linux to build only setpriv.

agnostic-apollo commented

busybox also provides a lot of non-root applets and some root ones, although not all are symlinked.

Anyways, if the maintainers think that this should be moved to the root repo, I'm fine with that. Just wanted to know if there are any plans. I'll be hosting my own repo soon, so I can compile setpriv myself as I will be providing a few other root binaries as well, like fusermount and bindfs that are not provided by termux repos. Conflicts in future is one of the concerns.