pacman-fix-permissions

When updating packages with pacman you could see the following warning:

warning: directory permissions differ on /etc/NetworkManager/system-connections/
filesystem: 600  package: 700

This script helps to find and fix wrong filesystem permissions on Arch Linux without reinstalling every package. It downloads package archives and compares directory trees with actual filesystem.

WARNING: It will spend a lot of your internet trafic and storage space!

Installation

From AUR

# replace with your favorite AUR helper
paru -S pacman-fix-permissions

Local

make install
source .venv/bin/activate

Usage

usage: pacman-fix-permissions [-h] [-a | -p [NAME ...] | -f [PATH ...]] [-c] [-v]

options:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -a, --all             process all installed packages (default)
  -p [NAME ...], --packages [NAME ...]
                        list of package names to process
  -f [PATH ...], --filesystem-paths [PATH ...]
                        list of filesystem paths to process
  -c, --clean           clean up package cache after processing
  -v, --version         show program's version number and exit

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Pro tip: use lostfiles as a companion tool to find files pacman doesn't know about.