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[arch-announce] Manual intervention for pacman 7.0.0 and local repositories required
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Morten Linderud 14 Sep '24

14 Sep '24

With the release of [version 7.0.0][0] pacman has added support for downloading packages as a separate user with dropped privileges. For users with local repos however this might imply that the download user does not have access to the files in question, which can be fixed by assigning the files and folder to the `alpm` group and ensuring the executable bit (`+x`) is set on the folders in question. $ chown :alpm -R /path/to/local/repo Remember to [merge the .pacnew][1] files to apply the new default. Pacman also introduced [a change][2] to improve checksum stability for git repos that utilize `.gitattributes` files. This might require a one-time checksum change for `PKGBUILD`s that use git sources. [0]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/blob/master/NEWS?ref_type=heads [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Pacman/Pacnew_and_Pacsave [2]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/commit/9548d6cc765b1a8dcf933e8… URL: https://archlinux.org/news/manual-intervention-for-pacman-700-and-local-rep…

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