[arch-general] pacman & sudo

[Alessandro Doro]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 10:28:34AM +0100, Xavier wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:16 AM, Alessandro Doro <ordo.ad at gmail.com> wrote:
> > And times ago there where permission (umask) issues with users calling
> > pacman with sudo.
> >
> 
> There is no problem calling pacman with sudo, I do that all the time.
> 
> I think what you are referring to was a problem with non-standard
> umask, which has been fixed in pacman :
> http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12263
> 
Yes, I'm sorry for the inaccuracy.

> If you used pacman as root with non-standard umask, you would have had
> exactly the same problem.