[arch-general] Upgrading mlocate: /var/lib/mlocate/ Permissions Warning.
Ralph Corderoy
ralph at inputplus.co.uk
Sun Jun 10 11:50:04 UTC 2018
Hi Tinu,
> > https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=packages/mlocate#n58
> > seems to take care that /var/lib/locate is 750 on line 58, but
> > that's `locate', not `mlocate', so perhaps `mlocate' needs a similar
> > set up?
>
> I don't quite see the relation between locate an mlocate here (other
> than that they are provided by the same package and are listed next to
> each other in the mtree)...
Doesn't PKGBUILD explicitly ensuring `locate' is 750, `mlocate's
filesystem value, suggest it should do similar for `mlocate' to avoid
the mismatch?
> The package wants /var/lib/mlocate to have 755, but the directory on
> your system has 750.
Yes, that's what I understood the warning to say.
> I assume this is because the previous version of mlocate (0.26-6) set
> the permission that way:
>
> $ zcat .MTREE | tail -n4
> → /set gid=21 mode=750
> ./var/lib time=1491283536.206666666 mode=755 gid=0 type=dir
> ./var/lib/locate time=1491283536.206666666 type=dir
> → ./var/lib/mlocate time=1491283536.156666666 type=dir
And I think that was correct since the package's `Makefile.am' has
dbdir = $(localstatedir)/mlocate
...
install-exec-local:
$(MKDIR_P) "$(DESTDIR)$(dbdir)"
-chgrp $(groupname) "$(DESTDIR)$(dbdir)" 2>/dev/null \
→ && chmod g=rx,o= "$(DESTDIR)$(dbdir)"
AFAICS that file hasn't changed between git's upstream/0.26 in the
Debian repo and mlocate-0.26-14-gc98bf65 in the current one.
> I assume pacman never touches permissions on existing directories,
I could understand if it doesn't automatically do that,
but issue a warning instead, say.
> hence the warning.
Thus my wondering if the package is faulty for having 755.
If not, then presumably a PKGBUILD function gets added to convert
existing installations?
--
Cheers, Ralph.
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