Aaron Griffin schrieb: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Hubert Grzeskowiak > <arch-general-ml@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> 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 > > Can you try setting it to 0022 (the default, and what I have on my > system) and see if the problem persists? If it does not, we then know > the cause... > Still, pacman's explicit chmod of this dir should fix this... gah. > > Dan, does pacman also explicitly set its own umask anywhere? > ok. gonna change it before updating the next time
