[pacman-dev] tmp permissions problem is back?

[Mister Dobalina]

--- Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 8/20/07, Mister Dobalina <reebydobalina at yahoo.ca>
> wrote:
> >
> > # pacman -Q pacman libarchive
> > pacman 3.0.5-3
> > libarchive 2.2.6-1
> >
> > # mkdir /tmp/pacman.test
> >
> > # pacman -Ud
> >
>
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/filesystem-2007.08-1.pkg.tar.gz
> > --root /tmp/pacman.test
> >
> > # ls -l /tmp/pacman.test
> >
> > total 0
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  40 2007-07-30 15:52 bin/
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  40 2007-07-30 15:52 boot/
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  40 2007-07-30 15:52 dev/
> > drwxr-xr-x  4 root root 440 2007-07-30 15:52 etc/
> > drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  60 2007-07-30 15:52 home/
> > drwxr-xr-x  3 root root  60 2007-07-30 15:52 lib/
> > drwxr-xr-x  5 root root 100 2007-07-30 15:52 mnt/
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  40 2007-07-30 15:52 opt/
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  40 2007-07-30 15:52 proc/
> > drwxr-x---  2 root root  40 2007-07-30 15:52 root/
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  40 2007-07-30 15:52 sbin/
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  40 2007-07-30 15:52 srv/
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  40 2007-07-30 15:52 sys/
> > drwxr-xr-x  2 root root  40 2007-08-20 12:09 tmp/
> > drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 220 2007-07-30 15:52 usr/
> > drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 280 2007-08-20 12:09 var/
> 
> Did you run this as root? If not, scriptlets and
> directory permissions
> could get funky as a regular user doesn't have
> permission to chroot
> (to run scriptlets) and/or set some funky
> permissions on directories,
> perhaps.
> 
> -Dan
> 


All commands were run as root. The reason I sent the
original message is that a few days ago this problem
wasn't happening, but after a recent update it
started. I noticed it because I use the --root option
to set up a quick'n'dirty tmpfs chroot environment
from a small set of base packages, all from a script.
The problem is obviously very easy to chmod around in
the script, but just wanted to let you know that this
had suddenly popped up.

Cheers,
Jeremy



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