Re: [arch-general] Pacman db files and permissions.

2011-03-18 Thread Peter Lewis
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 matt

Re: [arch-general] Pacman db files and permissions.

2011-03-18 Thread Allan McRae
On 19/03/11 08:34, Peter Lewis wrote: Hi, It seems to me that something has changed regarding the way pacman handles permissions of its files since 3.5. I updated to pacman 3.5 yesterday, and today tried to do a pacman -Ss as my normal user. I got some "error: could not open file" errors and i

[arch-general] Pacman db files and permissions.

2011-03-18 Thread Peter Lewis
Hi, It seems to me that something has changed regarding the way pacman handles permissions of its files since 3.5. I updated to pacman 3.5 yesterday, and today tried to do a pacman -Ss as my normal user. I got some "error: could not open file" errors and it bailed. Now, I have my umask set as 0