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qinohe

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From: Netherlands

Registered: 2012-06-20

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[Solved]archiso warning: directory permissions differ

Hi all, today I tried creating a new ISO with archiso, but it gives me warnings like this:

warning: directory permissions differ on /home/mark/archling-home/releng/work/x86_64/airootfs/var/
filesystem: 700  package: 755
warning: directory permissions differ on /home/mark/archling-home/releng/work/x86_64/airootfs/var/lib/
filesystem: 700  package: 755

If this was the system itself I could change it, but since it's happening during building the ISO, I don't know what to change.
There is nothing I changed to the build files, it just started happening.
Copying over a new 'releng' dir. gives the same output.

I run mainline kernel, so I thought maybe I configured something wrong. Using a default stable kernel (3.15.7-1) leaves me with the same issue.
I looked if there is a bug report, but I can't seem to find one.
The ISO builds, but is unusable, it doesn't even start.
If you need more info, feel free to ask, thanks.

edit: Tracked it down.
A few days back I set my umask to 077, to prevent from 'prying eyes', I totally forgot about this.
Turns out, this will leave you, in this case, with an unusable ISO.
Now the wiki says:

For example, running umask 077 will give you
read and write permissions for new files, and read, write and execute permissions for new folders.

So I thought I was on the safe side when I changed it. How more wrong could I be...

Last edited by qinohe (2014-07-31 09:19:05)