Bug#51396: marked as done (apt-get source does not work as non-root)
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From: Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
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Subject: apt-get source does not work as non-root
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Package: apt
Version: 0.3.14
Severity: normal
$ apt-get source appindex
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
E: Archive directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing.
E: Unable to find a source package for appindex
$ sudo apt-get source appindex
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Need to get 55.8kB of source archives.
Get:1 http://www.uk.debian.org unstable/main appindex 0.5-1 (dsc) [614B]
Get:2 http://www.uk.debian.org unstable/main appindex 0.5-1 (tar) [52.5kB]
Get:3 http://www.uk.debian.org unstable/main appindex 0.5-1 (diff) [2648B]
Fetched 55.8kB in 3s (16.2kB/s)
utmp entry ("edward") does not match value of LOGNAME ("root"); using "root"
at
/usr/lib/dpkg/controllib.pl line 47.
dpkg-source: extracting appindex in appindex-0.5
$
I think it may be related to bug #49627 `apt: Cannot -s as non-root', not
sure.
-- System Information
Debian Release: potato
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux wb010 2.0.36 #2 Wed Sep 22 07:13:18 BST 1999 i586
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.1.2-10 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10 1:2.95.2-3 The GNU stdc++ library
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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ualberta.ca>
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Subject: Re: Bug#51396: apt-get source does not work as non-root
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On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Edward Betts wrote:
> $ apt-get source appindex
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: Archive directory /var/cache/apt/archives/partial is missing.
> E: Unable to find a source package for appindex
It does work as non-root, but it sounds like you have weird and/or wrong
permissions on /var/cache/apt/archives/partial or one of the sub
directories..
If you strace apt-get source as a user you should be able to see the exact
reason for the failure - probably a failing stat due to permissions.
Jason
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