apt behavior issue

[Paul Loughman]

> On my laptop install of 16.04 64-bit, it is apt-get update that is causing
> the change in ownership/attributes of the affected directory, not apt-get
> dist-upgrade. But, on my VM of 16.04 64-bit, it's apt-get dist-upgrade or
> apt full-upgrade that causes the change.
> 
> Here is the information concerning apt changing ownership/attributes during
> a dist-upgrade.
> 
> I noticed this first, if I remember correctly, on 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.

Paul Loughman
snowhg at icloud.com