Aaron Griffin schrieb: > 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? > root's and user's umask is the same: 0077
