NAME

pacrepairfile - reset properties on alpm-managed files

SYNOPSIS

pacrepairfile [options] (--gid|--mode|--mtime|--uid)... <file>...
pacrepairfile (--help|--version)

DESCRIPTION

Resets file properties for alpm-managed files based on MTREE data.

If stdin is not connected to a terminal, files will be read from stdin.

OPTIONS

--config=path

Set an alternate configuration file path.

--dbpath=path

Set an alternate database path.

--root=path

Set an alternate installation root.

--sysroot=path

Set an alternate system root. See pacutils-sysroot(7).

--quiet

Do not display progress information.

--package=pkgname

Search pkgname for file properties. May be specified multiple times. If --package is not specified, all installed packages will be searched.

--help

Display usage information and exit.

--version

Display version information and exit.

CAVEATS

pacrepairfile determines whether or not to read files from stdin based on a naive check using isatty(3). If pacrepairfile is called in an environment, such as a shell function or script being used in a pipe, where stdin is not connected to a terminal but does not contain files to reset, pacrepairfile should be called with stdin closed. For POSIX-compatible shells, this can be done with "<&-".

In order for pacrepairfile to reset a file's properties, the package which owns the file must have MTREE data.