Bug#108236: marked as done (apt-get potato->woody upgrade doesn't honour Dir::State in /etc/apt/apt.conf)
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From: Andrew Shugg <andrew@neep.com.au>
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Subject: apt-get potato->woody upgrade doesn't honour Dir::State in /etc/apt/apt.conf
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.3
Severity: normal
Tags: potato, woody
Preparing to replace apt 0.3.19 (using .../archives/apt_0.5.3_i386.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement apt ...
dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/var/state/apt/lists/partial': D=
irectory not empty
dpkg: warning - unable to delete old file `/var/state/apt/lists': Directory=
not empty
Setting up apt (0.5.3) ...
With Dir::State in /etc/apt/apt.conf set to "/var/state/apt", further
apt-get operations will break after the 0.5.3 upgrade moves the state
files to "/var/lib/apt". Either the directive in /etc/apt/apt.conf
should be overwritten, or the directive should be obeyed and a warning
note printed advising of the new location and that the change will
need to be done manually.
-- System Information
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux beamishred 2.2.19 #1 Sun Jun 24 15:06:27 EST 2001 i586
Locale: LANG=3DC, LC_CTYPE=3DC
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.3-9 GNU C Library: Shared librarie=
s an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-0.010424 The GNU stdc++ library =
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Subject: Re: Bug#108236: apt-get potato->woody upgrade doesn't honour Dir::State in /etc/apt/apt.conf
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On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Andrew Shugg wrote:
> With Dir::State in /etc/apt/apt.conf set to "/var/state/apt", further
> apt-get operations will break after the 0.5.3 upgrade moves the state
> files to "/var/lib/apt". Either the directive in /etc/apt/apt.conf
> should be overwritten, or the directive should be obeyed and a warning
> note printed advising of the new location and that the change will
> need to be done manually.
There are various notes that such directives should not be used without
a very specific reason, the failure is fairly clean and understandable I
don't see any need to do anything else.
Jason
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