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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Hubert Grzeskowiak
<arch-general-ml at nemesis13.de> wrote:
> 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.

It's not, those files are not installed directly out of the package -
pacman writes them itself.

What is root's umask?