On Sun, 13 May 2007 08:31:20 -0700 Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 12:54:13AM +0200, Francesco Poli > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > Hence I would say this file is not installed by any package. > > I guess it's created by the first run of aptitude, right? > > Yes, it is. [...] > i.e., aptitude does everything it can to make that file world-readable > short of chmod'ing it. Is root's umask set to something like 0077 on > your machine? (run "umask" as root to find out) [...]
I'm sorry, I only received this reply of yours today, due to an SMTP server delay in my chain of hops through e-mail forwarders... :p As we already concluded in the buglog of #421809, aptitude recreates /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates whenever its content must change and leaves its permissions as they were set according to root's umask. If explicit permission setting is common practice for other programs, it would be nice if aptitude chmod'ed /var/lib/aptitude/pkgstates to make it world-readable. -- 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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