Arch Linux

Description:

Pacman 3.5.0 sets the db files according to the umask, which can make them not world readable and hence users might need root privileges to search the db. This is a change since <3.5, since then everything needed to search for packages was set world readable.

I.e.

% ls -l /var/lib/pacman/sync/core/pacman-3.4.3-1/desc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 370 Mar 17 19:53 /var/lib/pacman/sync/core/pacman-3.4.3-1/desc

% ls -l /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db
-rw------- 1 root root 38K Mar 18 05:25 /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db


Additional info:
* package version(s)
3.5.0


Steps to reproduce:

Set umask to 077 and do a pacman -Syu.
Now, as a normal user (not root) try to pacman -Ss <foo>

E.g.
% pacman -Ss kernel26
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/testing.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/testing.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/core.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/extra.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community-testing.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/community-testing.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db'
error: could not open file /var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db: Failed to open '/var/lib/pacman/sync/multilib.db'

Thanks.