Re: APT Testers..

[Ingo Saitz <Ingo.Saitz@stud.uni-hannover.de>]

MoiN

Well, there seem to be some problems with the new apt. Using apt
as dselect access method, update does no longer work. The problem
is /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/update setting CACEDIR to the value
provided by apt-config. But the output gives:

$ apt-config shell CACHEDIR Dir::Cache
CACHEDIR='var/cache/apt/'

which should be an absolute path!? Or should the value of Dir be
prepended by that script?

I also found some (minor) errors in the apt_preferences manpage:

>    In practice this is often desired. A user may use a default pin to
>    make the stable distribution the default and then use the
>    --target-dist option with apt-get(8) to select newer versions from

According to the apt-get manpage, this should be --target-release or
--default-release.

[...]
> Bugs
> 
>    See the APT bug page. If you wish to report a bug in apt-cdrom, please
>    see /usr/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt or the bug(1) command.

Hmm, interesting info, note the reference to apt-cdrom :)

    Ingo
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