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Date:      Mon, 7 Feb 2011 09:11:39 +0000
From:      Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pkg_info -g not working for unprivileged user + unreadable files
Message-ID:  <AANLkTinvc5gins3MzMGmXLX=SfZ0eUQEvmrRdwjcgTxA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4D4FA4DA.608@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Feb 7, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> flz,
>
> In r206043 you converted fexists() in src/lib/libpkg/file.c to use open()
> instead of lstat(). Unfortunately this has the side effect of breaking
> 'pkg_info -g' for unprivileged users with files that have no +r bits. For
> example:
>
> pkg_info -g sudo-1.7.4.6
> Information for sudo-1.7.4.6:
>
> Mismatched Checksums:
> pkg_info: /usr/local/bin/sudo doesn't exist
> pkg_info: /usr/local/bin/sudoedit doesn't exist
> pkg_info: /usr/local/bin/sudoreplay doesn't exist
> pkg_info: /usr/local/sbin/visudo doesn't exist

How can you compute the checksum if you don't have read access?
I understand that the error message should rather be "Cannot open %s".

> Reverting your change produces the expected behavior. So my questions are=
,
> why was the change made, what are its benefits, and how can we fix this
> problem? =A0:)

I'm sure there was a good reason at the time. I'll have a better look later=
.

--=20
Florent Thoumie
flz@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer



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