Jim Meyering <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > James Antill wrote: >> Jim Meyering <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Thanks, James. > > I've just run this on a rawhide system: > koji download-build yum-3.4.0-1.fc16 > then this to install the 3 .rpm files: > yum install yum-* > > To test it, I set the permissions: > chmod go+r /var/lib/yum/rpmdb-indexes/* > then ran this (with my usual umask of 077): > yum upgrade --skip-broken > It didn't install anything (but did report dependency problems with > many boost-* js, js-devel, openbios-common packages), but did change > the permissions: > > $ ls -l /var/lib/yum/rpmdb-indexes > total 152 > -rw-rw-rw-. 1 root root 2878 Apr 16 00:07 conflicts > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 40862 Apr 16 00:06 file-requires > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 106402 Apr 16 00:06 pkgtups-checksums > -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 45 Apr 16 00:06 version > > Oops. Now "conflicts" is world writable. Thanks, for some reason I thought I read that the default open mode was 0644 in python ... but it's 0777. I thought I'd tested it too :(. Anyway changing the umask setting from 0 to 022 should fix this (new Fedora rawhide release, today). -- James Antill -- james@xxxxxxx _______________________________________________ Yum mailing list Yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.baseurl.org/mailman/listinfo/yum
