News draft: Manual intervention for pacman 7.0.0 and local repositories required
Hello everyone, with the move of pacman version 7.0.0 a few changes might require manual intervention from end users, which shall be described in the following news item! If you have feedback to it feel free to reply directly! ------ # Manual intervention for pacman 7.0.0 and local repositories required With the release of [version 7.0.0][0] pacman has added support for downloading packages as a separate user with dropped privileges, which we deem a good default for our distribution. 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. $ chown $USER:alpm -R /path/to/local/repo This is of course only relevant after you have successfully [merged the .pacnew][1] files. 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 PKGBUILDs 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/9548d6cc765b1a8dcf933e8b...
On Fri, Sep 13, 2024 at 07:18:07PM GMT, gromit wrote:
Hello everyone,
with the move of pacman version 7.0.0 a few changes might require manual intervention from end users, which shall be described in the following news item!
If you have feedback to it feel free to reply directly!
------ # Manual intervention for pacman 7.0.0 and local repositories required
With the release of [version 7.0.0][0] pacman has added support for downloading packages as a separate user with dropped privileges, which we deem a good default for our distribution.
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.
$ chown $USER:alpm -R /path/to/local/repo
This is of course only relevant after you have successfully [merged the .pacnew][1] files.
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 PKGBUILDs 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/9548d6cc765b1a8dcf933e8b...
Fwiw, already reviewed by me :) Thanks for doing the work gromit! -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16
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