Hubert Grzeskowiak schrieb: > 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 > upgraded as root with umask 0022 and it's all okay. H.G.
