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d3vilguard

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Registered: 2022-01-01

Posts: 9

No access to local repos

Hi guys!
Updated pacman to 7.
Merged the pacman config. By the looks of it the only changes were:

DownloadUser = alpm
#DisableSandbox

Then ran

chown :alpm -R /path/to/local/repo

In my case

sudo chown :alpm -R /home/georgi/Documents/MAKE/repo

Well doing a -Syu I get:

error: failed retrieving file ‘repo.db’ from disk : Couldn’t open file /home/georgi/Documents/MAKE/repo/repo.db
error: failed to synchronize all databases (failed to retrieve some files)

By the mesage in the newsfeed I’m also supposed to

executable bit (+x) is set on the folders in question

I really don’t understand what I am supposed to do?

Thanks in advance!

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Fixxer

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From: Poland

Registered: 2011-08-29

Posts: 220

Re: No access to local repos

Because of 0700 /home/user permissions that's rather not resolution for the problem:

sudo chown :alpm -R /home/georgi/Documents/MAKE/repo

One of way could be move repository directory out of /home/user, eg somewhere to /srv/repo with normal permissions, as follows:

user:user drwxr-xr-x

Most important are permissions granted to other on repository directory: read and execution bit.
Remember to update your ~/.config/pacman/makepkg.conf to instruct makepkg where to place compiled packages. Also /etc/pacman.conf needs to be updated.

Last edited by Fixxer (2024-09-15 06:39:47)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

Posts: 58,659

Re: No access to local repos

More discussion of the general problem: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=299394

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