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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Hubert Grzeskowiak
<arch-general-ml at nemesis13.de> wrote:
> Aaron Griffin schrieb:
>> 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?
>>
>
> root's and user's umask is the same: 0077

Can you try setting it to 0022 (the default, and what I have on my
system) and see if the problem persists? If it does not, we then know
the cause...
Still, pacman's explicit chmod of this dir should fix this... gah.

Dan, does pacman also explicitly set its own umask anywhere?