[pacman-dev] [pacman 3.1] wrong permission of files and rep in package

Xavier shiningxc at gmail.com
Sat Jan 12 07:16:46 EST 2008


solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote:
> hi.
> i am using pacman 3.1 for x86_64.
>
> and the package i create with makepkg have wrong permissions:
> directory have permission drw------- and files have -rw-------
>
> it's because i use umask=0077 for my user.
> and because, i suppose, of that new "feature", only runs in fakeroot when
> necessary i see in the ChangeLog of pacman 3.1
>
> well it seems, that by willing to run in fakeroot only when needed you did not
> use fakeroot when you should
>
> or the bug i am reporting is a feature ?
>
> it will break many PKGBUILD for people using umask=0077
>
> at least pacman warns you when you install such a package
>

I can't reproduce this on i686.
makepkg sets the umask itself anyway :
671 # ensure we have a sane umask set
672 umask 0022




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