Re: Any way to make apt ignore dpkg status file?

[Tim Woodall <debianuser@woodall.me.uk>]

On Sat, 9 Jul 2022, Tim Woodall wrote:

> Hi
>
> $ APT_CONFIG=../apt/apt.conf.buster.amd64 apt-cache policy dpkg
> dpkg:
>  Installed: 1.20.10
>  Candidate: 1.20.10
>  Version table:
> *** 1.20.10 100
>        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>     1.19.8 500
>        500 http://aptmirror17.home.woodall.me.uk/local buster/essential 
> amd64 Packages
>
> Is there any way to make this not see the installed version other than
> by using -o RootDir?
In case anyone finds this thread:

$ APT_CONFIG=apt/apt.conf.buster.amd64 apt-cache policy dpkg
dpkg:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 1.19.8
  Version table:
     1.19.8 500
        500 http://aptmirror17.home.woodall.me.uk/local buster/essential amd64 Packages

Needs:
Dir::State::Status "file";

file must exist but can be empty.

DPKG_ADMINDIR environment variable doesn't work in this case.

Tim