[pacman-dev] tmp permissions problem is back?

[Mister Dobalina]

--- Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 10:49:44PM +0200, Xavier
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 06:35:23PM +0200, Xavier
> wrote:
> > > What I can't explain and needs to be
> investigated is why
> > > the workaround in post_install doesn't work :
> > >   # workaround for bug #7194
> > >   chmod 1777 var/spool/mail tmp var/tmp
> > 
> > That apparently works fine with pacman git though
> ...
> 
> Ok, you can ignore that, it was stupid.
> pacman git doesn't use NO_OVERWRITE, so it doesn't
> need that chmod in
> post_install for getting /tmp/ permissions right..
> 

Sorry, maybe it's my bad -- I'm not installing
coreutils in my chroot environment, so the chmod in
post_install won't work. Still curious why it worked
OK before I upgraded.



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