Hello, WITHOUT doing any thing : In FC8, the yum is bug ( due to d/l the rpm packages from other FC, NOT FC8 )... In FC9, the yum is good for work... That's all I known. Thanks ! Edward. David Jansen wrote: >Am I missing something, or is this a bug in either yum or rpm (on Fedora >8): > >Root's umask is set to 077, so files created by root are by default only >readable by root. Safest setting, so quite ok. >Now root runs an rpm or yum command to install or update files. Umask >setting is not used for the files extracted from the rpm, those get the >permissions as stored inside the package. But root's umask appears to be >in effect for the scripts that run from the rpm. > >Most notably: various files in /usr/share/mime become inaccessibel to >normal users after root manually installs updates. Similarly, after the >last update of tetex, files like /usr/share/texmf/ls-R were only >readable for root. > >Updates installed through the cron jobs, yum-updatesd, don't seem to >suffer from this problem. > >If I explicitly execute 'umask 022; yum upgrade', there is no >problem. So I think this is a bug in yum/rpm. > >Actually, I have been having problems with files like those in >/usr/share/mime for a long time, probably since Fedora 8 came out, I >just never correlated the problem to the way the updates were installed >until now. > >On Fedora 9, I have not been able to reproduce the problem, even though >the umask settings are the same. > >So, should I report this as a bug, or is it known, or perhaps already >solved somehow? > >David Jansen > > > -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
