FS#6100 - pacaman3 regression: checkpkg no longer works

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 29 December 2006, 11:15 GMT
Last edited by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Wednesday, 03 January 2007, 08:07 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category
Status Closed
Assigned To Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

pacman3 refused to do anything with the -S option as non-root user, where pacman2 worked fine:

[jan@server gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg]$ checkpkg
looking for inter-conflicts... done.
error: failed to commit transaction (insufficient privileges)

Couldn't download previous package.

Offended line in checkpkg:
pacman3 -Spd --noconfirm $pkgname

pacman 2.x used to allow pacman -Spd to print the URL of the package it would download as normal user.
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Closed by  Aaron Griffin (phrakture)
Thursday, 11 January 2007, 21:59 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Friday, 29 December 2006, 17:36 GMT
This may be fixed in CVS right now - no opportunity to test ATM.

The main issue is that -Sp requests "read-only" permissions from libalpm, yet the "transaction commit" expects "read-write" permissions, so it fails.

I will test later on
Comment by Aaron Griffin (phrakture) - Wednesday, 03 January 2007, 08:07 GMT
Fixed in CVS, I think

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