On Freitag, 12. Dezember 2008 23:03 Hubert Grzeskowiak wrote:
That's so weird... so pacman's umask setting just doesn't work?
either that or it's sudo. i've only tested it with the default umask so far and without sudo. if the bug would appear there, it would be easy to say that it's pacman setting his own strange permissions.
I think it is sudo because there was a bugreport in the past about bad file permissions for the changelog files and the pacman dev(s) invest a lot to prevent such cases where umask is the problem. I hope i'm right with this.
-su/root pacman with non-default umask
If you type su instead of "su -" than root (or the user you choose) get the umask of the user who starts this. At the end i must say that i don't realy understand what speak against a "real root login" to do the jobs with pacman. To only know if there be new updates it is enough to run a cronjob which send an email of the output from "pacman -Syup" to the user acount and than you have to run pacman as root only for updates or other things. But this be only my 2c. See you, Attila