last_installed.txt owned by root

[hilgenberg]

Pikaur v1.18.3
Pacman v6.0.2 - libalpm v13.0.2 - pyalpm v0.10.6

[Optional] Prerequisites:

umask 077
XDG_DATA_HOME == XDG_CONFIG_HOME (probably irrelevant)

Description:

I get this error (and the last_installed.txt file is owned by root:root, with mode 700, so regular user cannot read it):

cp: cannot open '/home/torsten/.config/pikaur/aur_repos/grimshot/last_installed.txt' for reading: Permission denied
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pikaur/main.py", line 428, in main
cli_entry_point()
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pikaur/main.py", line 323, in cli_entry_point
execute_pikaur_operation(pikaur_operation=pikaur_operation, require_sudo=require_sudo)
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pikaur/main.py", line 260, in execute_pikaur_operation
pikaur_operation()
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pikaur/main.py", line 165, in cli_install_packages
InstallPackagesCLI()
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pikaur/install_cli.py", line 177, in init
self.main_sequence()
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pikaur/install_cli.py", line 225, in main_sequence
self.install_packages()
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pikaur/install_cli.py", line 1128, in install_packages
self.build_packages()
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pikaur/install_cli.py", line 964, in build_packages
pkg_build.build(
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pikaur/build.py", line 933, in build
self.prepare_build_destination()
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pikaur/build.py", line 590, in prepare_build_destination
copy_aur_repo(self.repo_path, self.build_dir)
File "/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages/pikaur/build.py", line 123, in copy_aur_repo
raise RuntimeError(translate(f"Can't copy '{from_path}' to '{to_path}'."))

RuntimeError: Can't copy '/home/torsten/.config/pikaur/aur_repos/grimshot' to '/home/torsten/.cache/pikaur/build/grimshot'.

Looks like the update_last_installed_file() is run as root.

[actionless]

Thanks for reporting!
You can check with pikaur-git AUR package if it works for you now.