[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Create pacman keyring directory if missing

Ray Kohler ataraxia937 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 27 22:43:19 EDT 2011


On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:32 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Ray Kohler <ataraxia937 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Use mode 755, so non-root users can see inside.
>> Add "--no-permission-warning" to GPG_PACMAN to suppress the noise that
>> otherwise comes of not using mode 700 - this is not private data.
>>
>> GPGme turns out not to issue this warning itself, so no problem there.
>>
>> TODO: should non-root users be allowed to use the read-only operations
>> (--list, --export, --finger)?
> I would say yes- is there any reason not to allow them to?

I'll do that, then - but in a second patch, not an update to this one.


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