tj/gobinaries

Post data output of uname instead of sudo sh

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EmilStenstrom commented

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Would it be possible the change the installation procedure, and remove the need for sudo sh, by posting the result of uname to the server?

I’m thinking something like this:

uname -s | curl --data-binary @- URL

Would that work and be worthwhile?

tj commented

Hmm yeah that could work! I guess the only downside is hurting the UX a bit, with having to -o to your bin dir and chmod.

The sudo is only necessary for the default /usr/local/bin though, we could maybe change that to ~/.bin or something, I wish there was a standard dir already in PATH there

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kakkoyun commented

~/.bin idea is great. I think it shouldn't require sudo by default. I really look forward to this improvement, this would simplify my CI and Makefile quite a bit.