Re: apt-get --print-uris in NoLocking mode

[Rob Mahurin <robm@mad.scientist.com>]

On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 10:59:53PM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 03:42:23PM -0500, will trillich wrote:
> > On Sun, May 20, 2001 at 01:56:23AM +0200, Santi B?jar wrote:
> > >    I try to get a list of all the .deb to be installed (with
> > >    --print-uris), but I have to do it like root. I thought that if I add
> > > a "-o Debug::NoLocking=yes" would make it possible to run it like
> > > user. But I get this:
> > > 
> > > bash$ apt-get --print-uris -o Debug::NoLocking=yes upgrade
> > > E: Unable to write to /var/cache/apt/
> > > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.

Hmmm, wait a minute:

10:37 $ apt-get --print-uris -o Debug::NoLocking=yes install proftpd 
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  proftpd 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 357kB of archives. After unpacking 897kB will be used.
'ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/net/proftpd_1.2.0pre12
10:38 $  apt-get --print-uris -o Debug::NoLocking=yes install proftpd | grep ^\' | cut -d\' -f 2 | xargs wget 
--10:42:43-- ftp://ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu:21/pub/linux/distributions/debian/dists/potato/main/binary-i386/net/pb
           => `proftpd_1.2.0pre10-2.0potato1.deb'
Connecting to ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu:21... 

Why can I do this and Santi can't?  (My /var/cache/apt doesn't
conatain a lock file, but with NoLocking=yes, that shouldn't matter.)

Rob

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