On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 10:31:49PM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > On Tuesday 04 September 2012 09:05 PM, Agustin Martin wrote: > > apt-get sets normal permissions under /var/lib/apt/lists/ as > > > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root > > > > for downloaded files and only keeps the lock file not world readable. > > > > However, when that stuff is installed by apt-offline only Sources and > > packages files stay world readable, but not Release and Release.gpg files. > > Which debian release are you on? The latest, Wheezy, does not seem to > use Release file any more. > It uses the new InRelease approach.
It was a testing box, but I do not remember now if apt-cache error was triggered by Release* from official Debian repo or from a personal repository still using Release and Release.gpg. > But I'll still fix it. World readable is not a troublesome permission. > > > This causes "Permission denied" errors when using "apt-cache search", > > apparently for no good reason. > > > > Also, *.deb packages installed by apt-offline under > > /var/cache/apt/archives are not world readable, while "apt-get" installs > > them world readable. > > > > > I'll check this too. Thank you. Thanks a lot for your quick reply and for fixing both things. Regards, -- Agustin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
