[arch-general] Upgrading mlocate: /var/lib/mlocate/ Permissions Warning.

[Tinu Weber]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2018 at 12:50:04 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Doesn't PKGBUILD explicitly ensuring `locate' is 750, `mlocate's
> filesystem value, suggest it should do similar for `mlocate' to avoid
> the mismatch?

No idea, but it's possible. Especially because -

> 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)"

What happens if you remove the leading dash from that line? I assume
either `chrgrp` or `chmod` fails at some point...

I tried building mlocate myself, but I run into this error with makepkg:

    ==> Making package: mlocate 0.26.git.20170220-1 (Sun 10 Jun 2018 15:03:17 CEST)
    ==> Checking runtime dependencies...
    ==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
    ==> Retrieving sources...
    ==> ERROR: /home/ayekat/devel/pkgbuilds/mlocate/trunk/mlocate is not a clone of https://pagure.io/mlocate.git
        Aborting...

Same error with makechrootpkg. I can't find anything weird with the
mlocate PKGBUILD though.

> 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.

It's indeed odd...

> Thus my wondering if the package is faulty for having 755.

Yeah, probably that is not intended.

> If not, then presumably a PKGBUILD function gets added to convert
> existing installations?

I'm sorry, but I don't understand that sentence.

Best,
Tinu
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