Fwd: apt behavior issue

[Valorie Zimmerman]

Follow up to Paul's first email.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Paul <snowhg at icloud.com>
Date: Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 8:11 PM
Subject: apt behavior issue
To: valorie.zimmerman at gmail.com


Valorie -



Here is the information concerning apt changing ownership/attributes
during a dist-upgrade.



I noticed this first, if I remember correctly, yesterday, December 9, 2015.



The directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is affected. Before I
observed the issue, this is what the directory should look like:



drwxr-xr-x 2 root root    4096 Dec 10 18:07 partial


This is what it looks like after running sudo apt-get dist-upgrade and
packages are downloaded/processed:



drwx------ 2 _apt root    4096 Dec 10 18:07 partial

I noticed this problem when I tried to perform a cache cleanup with:



sudo apt-get --purge autoremove && sudo apt-get clean

I got informed that I could not perform the operation on the partial
directory because I didn't have permission.



I have to change the ownership and attributes after a dist-upgrade.



I'm seeing this on Kubuntu 16.04 64-bit.



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