Bug#456457: Add a mechanism for reparenting *all* file/directory names.

["Lord of, St. Luke Valor" <lord.of.valor@gmail.com>]

Make sure to run that by the security team. Don't want to hear 'bout no loopholes.
 

Luke
 

On 12/15/07, Daniel Burrows <dburrows@debian.org> wrote:

Package: apt
Version: 0.7.10
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

There are times when it would be nice to be able to force apt to use
a different directory tree for everything.  Setting "Dir" to a new
location won't work, because absolute paths in the Dir hierarchy will
override this.  I propose creating a new option, "RootDir", that changes
the root under which filenames in the Dir hierarchy are placed.  This
effectively means that the new directory is prepended to all filenames
returned by FindFile.

The attached patch adds support for RootDir to apt and documents it.

Daniel

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Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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ii  debian-archive-keyring  2007.07.31       GnuPG archive keys of the Debian a
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ii  libgcc1                 1:4.3-20071130-1 GCC support library
ii  libstdc++6              4.3-20071130-1   The GNU Standard C++ Library v3

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