Bug#134588: dpkg: --admindir works but as option in dpkg.cfg not

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 04:24:29PM +0100, Giunchedi Filippo wrote:
> Package: dpkg
> Version: 1.9.19
> Severity: normal
> 
> if i pass --admindir to dpkg all go ok but if i try to specify it in 
> dpkg.cfg it doesn't work and get me a
> 
> dpkg: failed to open package info file `/status' for reading: No such
> file or directory
> 
> here is my dpkg.cfg
> 
> #admindir=/home/filippo/prove/dpkg
> debug=1
> no-debsig
> 
> /home/filippo/prove/dpkg is a valid dir (because if i pass from the
> commandline it works).
> i've also tried admindir='/blah' or admindir="blah", it's the same.
> is it a bug or i've missing something?

Can you still reproduce this? It seems to work for me using both dpkg
1.9.21 and 1.10.18. No quoting was required.

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                  [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]