[pacman-dev] -Sp is broken?

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Thu Oct 4 09:58:12 EDT 2007


On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 09:03:28PM +0200, Xavier wrote:
> However, after reverting this commit, this command still needs to be run as
> root for working. That wasn't the case with pacman 3.0 ..

Oh... I just figured out why this happens. In pacman 3.0, the lock was in
/tmp/pacman.lck , while it's now in /var/lib/pacman/db.lck.

So previously, a normal user could lock. And not anymore..




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