Bug#176108: marked as done (apt: mistake in prefernces file location not caught)
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From: "Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>
To: "Debian Bug Tracking System" <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: apt: mistake in prefernces file location not caught
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Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: minor
File: /usr/share/man/man8/apt-get.8.gz
gentlemen, if one messes up with the -o here, no error is raise, no
warning is given
apt-get -o Dir::Etc::Preferences=some/invalid/place \
-s install libc6
...Building Dependency Tree... 50%
Building Dependency Tree... 50%
(funny, same line repated)
The following extra packages will be installed:
libc6-dev locales
3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 685 not upgraded.
Inst libc6-dev (2.3.1-9 Debian:unstable) []
Inst locales (2.3.1-9 Debian:unstable) []
Inst libc6 (2.3.1-9 Debian:unstable)
Conf libc6 (2.3.1-9 Debian:unstable)
Conf libc6-dev (2.3.1-9 Debian:unstable)
Conf locales (2.3.1-9 Debian:unstable)
at least make a note that no checks are made on the apt-get and
apt.conf man pages.
wait! some checks are indeed made:
# apt-get -o Dir::Etc::Preferences=$PWD \
-s install libc6
E: Read error - read (21 Is a directory)
so dirs will be caught but not files!
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.19-k7 #1 Sun Oct 6 20:29:56 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5
Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii libc6 2.2.5-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-12 The GNU stdc++ library
-- no debconf information
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From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#176108: apt: mistake in prefernces file location not caught
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To: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>, 176108-done@bugs.debian.org
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On Fri, 10 Jan 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> gentlemen, if one messes up with the -o here, no error is raise, no
> warning is given
It is entirely legitimate and desired to have a non-existant preferences
file. This is how APT ships. Messages are only printed if the file cannot
be opened for some kind of unusual reason.
Jason
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