tlmgr messes up the rights of installed/updated packagess

[Tom Kacvinsky]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2022 at 11:03 AM Walter Cazzola <cazzola at di.unimi.it> wrote:

> Dear TeXLive Users/Developers,
> I have a problem with tlmgr that affects my texlive installation since
> TL2021.
>
> Context. I'm on a Linux (Fedora 35 flavor) box where I have installed
> texlive
> as root with the TUG script. In this way all the users of the Linux box can
> use LaTeX. I'm currently using an up-to-date TL2022 full installation.
>
> Once installed everything work as expected. Unfortunately when I run (as
> root):
>
>    > tlmgr update --all
>
> the updated packages have their rights access changed from 755 to 700 (644
> to
> 600 if they are files). This provokes a file not found error when the user
> try
> to use the updated style, class, font or documentation.
>
> At the moment, I tame the issue by manually searching for the wrong right
> configurations and reverting them to the expected ones. This is a boring
> and
> a quite error-prone process that I would prefer to avoid.
>
> This behavior is occurring since TL2021
> I googled around but I can't find anything on the topic.
>
> Am I doing something wrong? Do you have a way to fix it?
>
> Thank you in advance for your help


What is the rumask for the root user?  That is probably the culprit.  If it
restricts
group and other permissions, non-root users won't be able to see it .  Then
it
might be a tlmgr issue, but I don't see tlmgr playing with the umask for a
user.
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