`google-cloud-sdk` AUR package gets built incorrectly, ends up using `/root` for configuration files but cannot access. (Works with manual `makepkg`.)

Pamac --version

Pamac 10.3.0-6 - libpamac 11.2.0-12

Variant in use

GUI and CLI

Distribution

Manjaro

Desktop environment

GNOME

What's not working

$ sudo pamac install google-cloud-sdk

[…]

  File "/var/cache/private/pamac/google-cloud-sdk/pkg/google-cloud-sdk/opt/google-cloud-sdk/lib/googlecloudsdk/core/configurations/named_configs.py", line 549, in _ActiveConfigNameFromFile
    raise NamedConfigFileAccessError(
googlecloudsdk.core.configurations.named_configs.NamedConfigFileAccessError: Active configuration name could not be read from: [/root/.config/gcloud/active_config]. Ensure you have sufficient read permissions on required active configuration in [/root/.config/gcloud/configurations].
  Unable to read file [/root/.config/gcloud/active_config]: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/root/.config/gcloud/active_config'
==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package().
    Aborting...
Finished with result: exit-code
Main processes terminated with: code=exited/status=4

I tried various combinations of sudo, bash -c, su, and environment variables. The result was the same failure in each case.

Running makepkg as a regular user and using sudo for the install afterwards works.

How to reproduce?

sudo pamac install google-cloud-sdk

OR:

Install from the GUI pamac client.

More information (optional)

A previous installation of this package may be necessary— I was updating from 369.X.

Reported to package maintainer: https://github.com/sudoforge/pkgbuilds/issues/59. Says problem is not with package, but probably with something pamac is doing.

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