On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 12:47 PM, Hubert Grzeskowiak <arch-general-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > hi there, > can it be, that the some dirs written to /var/lib/pacman/local/* are not > chmod'ed properly? sometimes i get errors because as user i don't have > the permissions to do anything with it (it's set to drwx------). this > only occurs on some packages (eg. the new nmap package). other dirs and > files inside all (also the corrupted) directories seem okay (files: > -rw-r--r--; dirs: drwxr-xr-x) > > i played around with umask and sudo (always used on de-/installations) > with no result -everything was okay- so i conclude it's a per-package > problem. It's not, those files are not installed directly out of the package - pacman writes them itself. What is root's umask?
