Man1 - pacrepairfile.1

pacrepairfile - reset properties on alpm-managed files

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

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.

–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.

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.