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-rw-r--r--mesonbuild/minstall.py2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mesonbuild/minstall.py b/mesonbuild/minstall.py
index 6c1810a..212568a 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/minstall.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/minstall.py
@@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ class Installer:
self.log('Preserved {} unchanged files, see {} for the full list'
.format(self.preserved_file_count, os.path.normpath(self.lf.name)))
except PermissionError:
- if shutil.which('pkexec') is not None and 'PKEXEC_UID' not in os.environ and destdir is None:
+ if shutil.which('pkexec') is not None and 'PKEXEC_UID' not in os.environ and destdir == '':
print('Installation failed due to insufficient permissions.')
print('Attempting to use polkit to gain elevated privileges...')
os.execlp('pkexec', 'pkexec', sys.executable, main_file, *sys.argv[1:],