Re: apt-get -o's
On Sun, Sep 15, 2002 at 02:12:51PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
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> On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Marc Singer wrote:
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> > Interesting. Using strace, I can tell that the update command is
> > spawning something, I assume it is dpkg. I still get nothing when I
> > add the debug message:
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> That is not a message from dpkg though, you also need to tell apt where to
> find your new lock file. I think the option is dir::state::lock, but you
> should check..
I see the problem now. The fork was a red-herring. Once I set
Dir::State::staus to point to an empty file, it works.
Thanks.
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