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Bug#414202: marked as done (apt: Unable to specify options on the command line that work via a conf file - lock errors)

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--- Begin Message --- 
Package: apt
Version: 0.6.46.4-0.1
Severity: normal

This apt-conf file does work:
(In this example, /var/emdebian/sqlite is a non-privileged directory)

Dir "/var/emdebian/sqlite/"
{
  Etc "/var/emdebian/sqlite/"
  {
    SourceList "sources-debian.unstable";
  };
  State "unstable-amd64/"
  {
    Status "/var/emdebian/sqlite/status-debian"
  }
  Cache "unstable-amd64/";
};

The same options on the command line do not:

apt-get -o Apt::Dir="/var/emdebian/sqlite/" \
        -o Apt::Dir::Etc="/var/emdebian/sqlite/" \
        -o Apt::Dir::Etc::SourceList="sources-debian.unstable" \
        -o Apt::Dir::State=unstable-amd64/ \
        -o Apt::Dir::State::Status="/var/emdebian/sqlite/status" \
        -o Apt::Dir::Cache=unstable-amd64/ \
        update

Example in an arbitrary directory:
mkdir -p archives/partial 
mkdir -p lists/partial
mkdir unstable
touch status.unstable
apt-get -o Apt::Dir="$PWD" -o Apt::Dir::Etc::SourceList="sources.unstable" -o Apt::Dir::State="unstable/" -o Apt::Dir::State::Lists="lists/" -o Apt::Dir::State::Status="status.unstable" -o Apt::Dir::Cache="unstable/" update 
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the list directory

Despite the directories being specifically set to non-privileged
folders, apt still tries to use /var/lib/apt/

This is complicating my embedded work where it is common to require
multiple apt caches for different architectures and suites. The bug
leads to many many apt-conf.foo files being either auto-generated or
packaged alongside the script and then maintained or copied each time a
different architecture needs to be queried.

With 11 supported cross-building architectures, two suites (rising to
three, possibly four) and three buildd platforms, the permutations of
apt.conf-foo files is becoming a real problem.

When using sudo, apt-get ignores the command line options are updates
the cache files according to my /etc/apt/sources.list NOT the local
sources.unstable file that I specified on the command line.

The same errors occur with apt-cache:

$ apt-cache -o Apt::Dir="$PWD" -o Apt::Dir::Etc::SourceList="sources.unstable" -o Apt::Dir::State="unstable/" -o Apt::Dir::State::Lists="lists/" -o Apt::Dir::State::Status="status.unstable" -o Apt::Dir::Cache="unstable/" pkgnames

prints the list of pkgnames from the system cache, not the local one.

Enclosing all options within one quote does not affect the problem:

$ apt-get -o 'Apt::Dir="/var/emdebian/sqlite/"
Apt::Dir::Etc="/var/emdebian/sqlite/"
Apt::Dir::Etc::SourceList="sources-debian.unstable"
Apt::Dir::State="unstable-amd64/"
Apt::Dir::State::Status="/var/emdebian/sqlite/status-debian"
Apt::Dir::Cache="unstable-amd64/"' update
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the list directory

$ cd ~
$ apt-get -o Apt::Dir::State::Lists="$PWD/lists/" update
E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/apt/lists/lock - open (13 Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the list directory

apt-(get|cache) just seem to ignore -o command line options that work fine
when using the -c <filename> method.

-- Package-specific info:

-- apt-config dump --

APT "";
APT::Architecture "amd64";
APT::Build-Essential "";
APT::Build-Essential:: "build-essential";
APT::Authentication "";
APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
Dir "/";
Dir::State "var/lib/apt/";
Dir::State::lists "lists/";
Dir::State::cdroms "cdroms.list";
Dir::State::userstatus "status.user";
Dir::State::status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
Dir::Cache "var/cache/apt/";
Dir::Cache::archives "archives/";
Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
Dir::Cache::pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
Dir::Etc "etc/apt/";
Dir::Etc::sourcelist "sources.list";
Dir::Etc::sourceparts "sources.list.d";
Dir::Etc::vendorlist "vendors.list";
Dir::Etc::vendorparts "vendors.list.d";
Dir::Etc::main "apt.conf";
Dir::Etc::parts "apt.conf.d";
Dir::Etc::preferences "preferences";
Dir::Bin "";
Dir::Bin::methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods";
Dir::Bin::dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
DPkg "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs "";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/bin/apt-listchanges --apt || test $? -ne 10";
DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs:: "/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt || true";
DPkg::Tools "";
DPkg::Tools::Options "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges "";
DPkg::Tools::Options::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2";

-- (no /etc/apt/preferences present) --


-- /etc/apt/sources.list --

deb ftp://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ unstable main
deb-src ftp://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ unstable main

#deb ftp://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ experimental main
#deb-src ftp://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ experimental main

deb http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/packages unstable main
deb-src http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/packages unstable main

#deb http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/packages experimental main
#deb-src http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/packages experimental main

#deb http://www.emdebian.org/emdebian/unstable main
deb http://www.emdebian.org/debian/ unstable main
deb-src http://www.emdebian.org/debian/ unstable main

deb-src http://mentors.debian.net/debian unstable main


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-4-amd64
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  debian-archive-keyring      2007.02.19   GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                     1:4.1.1-21   GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6                  4.1.1-21     The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

apt recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

--- End Message ---
--- Begin Message --- 
Sorry, misread apt.conf(5) - the -o option is Dir::foo, not Apt::Dir::foo.

The correct syntax for the command line should have been:

apt-get \
	-o Dir="/var/emdebian/sqlite/" \
	-o Dir::Etc="/var/emdebian/sqlite/" \
	-o Dir::Etc::SourceList="sources-debian.unstable" \
	-o Dir::State=unstable-amd64/ \
	-o Dir::State::Status="/var/emdebian/sqlite/status" \
	-o Dir::Cache=unstable-amd64/ \
	update

Ign http://www.emdebian.org unstable Release.gpg
Hit http://www.emdebian.org unstable Release
Ign http://www.emdebian.org unstable/main Packages/DiffIndex
Ign http://www.emdebian.org unstable/main Packages
Hit http://www.emdebian.org unstable/main Packages
Reading package lists... Done

Similarly:
$ mkdir -p unstable/archives/partial
$ mkdir -p unstable/lists/partial
$ touch unstable/status.unstable
$ echo "deb ftp://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ unstable main" > sources.unstable
$ echo "deb-src ftp://mirror.ox.ac.uk/debian/ unstable main" >> sources.unstable
$ apt-get \
	-o Dir="$PWD" \
	-o Dir::Etc="$PWD" \
	-o Dir::Etc::SourceList="sources.unstable" \
	-o Dir::State=unstable/ \
	-o Dir::State::Status="status.unstable" \
	-o Dir::Cache=unstable/ \
	update

Hit ftp://mirror.ox.ac.uk unstable Release.gpg
Hit ftp://mirror.ox.ac.uk unstable Release
Get: 1 ftp://mirror.ox.ac.uk unstable/main Packages/DiffIndex [2038B]
Get: 2 ftp://mirror.ox.ac.uk unstable/main Sources/DiffIndex [2023B]
Fetched 4061B in 1s (3970B/s)
Reading package lists... Done

Sorry for the noise.

Closing the report.

--


Neil Williams
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