[arch-general] wrong file permissions in /var/lib/pacman/local

Hubert Grzeskowiak arch-general-ml at nemesis13.de
Thu Dec 11 13:47:13 EST 2008


hi there,
can it be, that the some dirs written to /var/lib/pacman/local/* are not
chmod'ed properly? sometimes i get errors because as user i don't have
the permissions to do anything with it (it's set to drwx------). this
only occurs on some packages (eg. the new nmap package). other dirs and
files inside all (also the corrupted) directories seem okay (files:
-rw-r--r--; dirs: drwxr-xr-x)

i played around with umask and sudo (always used on de-/installations)
with no result -everything was okay- so i conclude it's a per-package
problem.

is anybody else encountering this?

thx in advance
Hubert Grzekowiak


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