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weirddan455

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Registered: 2012-04-15

Posts: 213

Libvirt permissions differ on upgrade

(12/16) upgrading libvirt                                    [--------------------------------] 100%
warning: /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml installed as /etc/libvirt/qemu/networks/default.xml.pacnew
warning: directory permissions differ on /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/
filesystem: 755  package: 770
>>> You may need to run 'rm -rf ~/.libvirt'

Does pacman just never update permissions automatically?  Anyway I just manually changed it with the following command.  Hope that was the right call.

$ sudo chmod 770 /var/lib/libvirt/qemu/

progandy

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Registered: 2012-05-17

Posts: 5,317

Re: Libvirt permissions differ on upgrade

Directory permissions are never changed automatically. A directory could be part of two different packages, with each package specifying different permissions. To make the job easier pacman only warns about changed directory permissions. File permissions are another matter, they will be modified.

You did the right thing with changing the permissions if the 755 wasn't set by you manually.

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