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

[Aaron Griffin]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 2:20 PM, Hubert Grzeskowiak
<arch-general-ml at nemesis13.de> wrote:
> Hubert Grzeskowiak schrieb:
>> 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
>>
>
> upgraded as root with umask 0022 and it's all okay.

That's so weird... so pacman's umask setting just doesn't work?