Any way to restore permissions of pacakge files?

I was running out of space in my root partition so I decided to use part of the disk that only had my personal data for /usr.
So, I resized and copied over all files from /usr.
But, I realized that I had forgot to preserve permissions after I had already deleted the original /usr partition.
I think I am going to run into many problems e.g. X not running because of setuid bit?
So I am looking for a way to restore permissions without reinstalling all the packages. Any suggestion?
Last edited by barum87 (2009-11-14 07:34:12)

You could check the packages in your pacman cache for the right permissions. Or you could reinstall them, essentially copying the original files with the right permissions to your new /usr. Maybe better make a backup of your configs before you do so though. I also think there might be a simpler way...

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