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| author | Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> | 2023-02-07 21:38:24 -0500 |
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| committer | Eli Schwartz <eschwartz@archlinux.org> | 2023-02-20 22:33:46 -0500 |
| commit | 55abcbb8f60e1afe3af0133a6ff0e9dedc6df1b7 (patch) | |
| tree | 5e2b5d8e2a47ebbc960b429b7bd4e8531e32f8a9 | |
| parent | ecb32bf457ed27b75c9b4386ca1acfbd4b63869e (diff) | |
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minstall: check 5 times for an answer to the elevation prompt
The user might press enter by accident and miss the message.
| -rw-r--r-- | mesonbuild/minstall.py | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mesonbuild/minstall.py b/mesonbuild/minstall.py index a645960..698feef 100644 --- a/mesonbuild/minstall.py +++ b/mesonbuild/minstall.py @@ -566,10 +566,13 @@ class Installer: if rootcmd is not None: print('Installation failed due to insufficient permissions.') - ans = input(f'Attempt to use {rootcmd} to gain elevated privileges? [y/n] ') - if ans not in {'y', 'n'}: + for attempt in range(5): + ans = input(f'Attempt to use {rootcmd} to gain elevated privileges? [y/n] ') + if ans in {'y', 'n'}: + break + else: raise MesonException('Answer not one of [y/n]') - elif ans == 'y': + if ans == 'y': os.execlp(rootcmd, rootcmd, sys.executable, main_file, *sys.argv[1:], '-C', os.getcwd(), '--no-rebuild') raise |