Re: python-apt problem

[Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:32:14AM +0100, Alex Polite wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 02:09:59 +0100, Michael Vogt <mvogt@acm.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Could you please try:
> > - apt_pkg.ReadConfigFile(Cnf,"/tmp/myapt.conf")
> > - apt_pkg.init()
> > + apt_pkg.InitSystem()
> > + apt_pkg.ReadConfigFile(apt_pkg.Config, "/tmp/myapt.conf")
> > 
> > apt_pkg.init() calls the normal pkgInitConfig() and that will read all
> > of the configuration.
> 
> 
> Thanks but no go.
> 
> It gives this output:
> 
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/tmp/test4.py", line 17, in ?
>     cache = apt_pkg.GetCache()
> SystemError: The list of sources could not be read.

Does "Dir::Etc::SourceList" point to a sources.list file in your
myapt.conf file? Have you checked with:
"strace -e trace=open python your_script.py" that it acutally opens
the correct one? I did a quick check here and it seems to work.

Cheers,
 Michael

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