On Sun, 13 May 2007 00:54:13 +0200 Francesco Poli wrote: [...] > $ ls -l /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates > -rw-rw---- 1 root root 1728097 2007-05-08 19:17 > /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates
Aaargh! Stop the press! ;-) I've just found out where the problem lies. While hardening the system I set 007 as default umask for regular user and as system-wide setting. I also had set umask 007 for root: since /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates is apparently rotated, it's recreated everytime its content changes, and its permissions are set accordingly to root's umask. Setting umask 022 for root and installing/removing a package solves both the problems (bugs #421809 and #421811). Now I can see the 'A' characters in the output of "aptitude search foo", even when I am a regular user. Moreover the simulated purge shows the same scenario for root and regular users. And, of course, no more red warnings when I fire up aptitude with no arguments as a regular user... I think both these bugs can be closed. Thanks for investigating in them, and apologies for the noise. -- http://frx.netsons.org/doc/nanodocs/testing_workstation_install.html Need to read a Debian testing installation walk-through? ..................................................... Francesco Poli . GnuPG key fpr == C979 F34B 27CE 5CD8 DC12 31B5 78F4 279B DD6D FCF4
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