On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 08:22:29PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > the files `apt-get update` downloads are stored with a mode > according to the umask of the caller. All my root accounts have 077, > which causes them to be 600 and thus unreadable by normal users. > I don't see a point at having these file be anything but 644 or even > 664. Could you please have apt-get set the permissions explicitly > after downloading the files?
I agree; I think it is supposed to do this, but a case is missing somewhere (search apt-pkg/acquire-item.cc for chmod). -- - mdz
