Arch Linux: Manual intervention for pacman 7.0.0 and local repositories required

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A new Arch Linux blog post/announcement has been posted!

With the release of version 7.0.0 pacman has added support for downloading packages as a separate user with dropped privileges.

For users with local repos however this might imply that the download user does not have access to the files in question, which can be fixed by assigning the files and folder to the alpm group and ensuring the executable bit (+x) is set on the folders in question.

$ chown :alpm -R /path/to/local/repo

Remember to merge the .pacnew files to apply the new default.

Pacman also introduced a change to improve checksum stability for git repos that utilize .gitattributes files. This might require a one-time check...

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