[arch-general] [ Pacman -Syu ] Creating temporary files..., error: command failed to execute correctly

[Xianwen Chen (陈贤文)]

Dear Eli,

Thank you.

I wrote a regulation expression, which extracts file name and path from 
the output of paccheck:

$ sudo paccheck --file-properties --quiet | grep -Po "(?<=\').*(?=\')" | 
sudo pacrepairfile --uid --gid --mode --mtime

However, somehow pacrepairfile was not working.

For example,

$ sudo pacrepairfile --uid --gid --mode --mtime 
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/colord.conf

outputs

     /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/colord.conf: set uid to 0
     /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/colord.conf: set gid to 0
     warning: /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/colord.conf: unable to set permissions 
(Operation not supported)
     /usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/colord.conf: set modification time to 1555511829

What happened with pacrepairfile?

Yours sincerely,

Xianwen


On 08/09/2019 22.53, Eli Schwartz via arch-general wrote:
> On 9/8/19 4:40 PM, Xianwen Chen (陈贤文) via arch-general wrote:
>> Dear Eli,
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> Is there a way to ask paccheck to list only files that need to be fixed?
>>
>> For example, if I run
>>
>>      sudo paccheck --file-properties --quiet
>>
>> I get list of files with package information and error information, such as
>>
>>      screen: '/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/screen.conf' permission mismatch
>> (expected 644)
>>
>> Or maybe I need to write a regular expression to extract file name and
>> path from such an output myself?
> No, paccheck does not have an option to do this. You could try
> submitting a feature request for it. :)
>
> You can extract everything between the '' though, which I think should
> handle any filenames since packaged filenames can contain spaces or
> single quotes but not newlines, and the paccheck output doesn't contain
> any more single quotes after the quoted filename.
>