Re: APT needs /var/lib/dpkg/
On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 19:25, Markus Kolb wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want to use APT (apt-get and apt-cache) for some repository games as a
> backend-tool. Of course as non-root user.
> Is there a possibility to tell apt-get and apt-cache to not look for
> status-file and lock-file in /var/lib/dpkg/ instead in some other
> directory? Or is that path hardcoded and I must recompile apt with
> changed source?
I'm afraid I can't help you with your problem, but it sounds like an
interesting idea - would you mind going into more depth about what
you're doing with APT? (btw, debian-user is probably a more suitable
list for this... I'm not sure it has much relevance to the usage of
Debian for ISPs.
>
> Thx
> Markus
>
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