tlmgr messes up the rights of installed/updated packagess

[Walter Cazzola]

On Sun, 24 Apr 2022, Tom Kacvinsky wrote:

> 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.

Current umask for the root user is 0033 as far as I can far this should grand
reading access to all users but directory should also need execution rights.

I will try to add it. Thank you.

Walter

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