Yaourt issue,please! ---[RESOLVED]

Question

HI,ALL
my yaourt-git is normal as user. but when add following line
PacmanBin /usr/bin/powerpill
in /etc/yaourtrc,then
100%[==========================================>] 374,627 214K/s in 1.7s
2010-01-21 22:17:47 (214 KB/s) - 已保存 "/var/lib/pacman/community.db.tar.gz.part" [374627/374627])
error: no write permissions to any of the following cache directories:
/var/cache/pacman/pkg/
I want to launch yaourt  by powerpill as  non-root user, what should I do ? thanks for reply.
Last edited by smileoa (2010-01-22 02:46:01)

Answer 1

Not that I have tried it, but the obvious solution would be to try to change ownership and permissions of /var/cache/pacman/pkg to something along the lines of this:
groupadd pacadmin
chown -R root:pacadmin /var/cache/pacman/pkg
chmod -R g+rw /var/cache/pacman/pkg
chmod g+s /var/cache/pacman/pkg
gpasswd -a smileoa pacadmin
Log out and then log in again to get the new group membership.
Pacman most likely includes some sort of UID check of its own and that may be more difficult to bypass. I haven't fiddled much with pacman myself (hey, it has always worked for me!).
Last edited by hw-tph (2010-01-21 16:07:02)