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

[Hubert Grzeskowiak]

Aaron Griffin schrieb:
> 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?
> 

ok. gonna change it before updating the next time