On Sat, 19 Mar 2011, Allan McRae wrote: > On 19/03/11 08:34, Peter Lewis wrote: > >It seems to me that something has changed regarding the way pacman handles > >permissions of its files since 3.5. > > Please file a bug report. Before the sync databases were extracted > so your umask did not matter. Now it apparently does... Thanks, done: FS#23343. Pete.