Hi, On Mon, Aug 21, 2017 at 03:21:39PM +0100, Matt Hoskins wrote: > I would guess this is a bug in the behaviour of Configuration::FindFile - > I've never delved into the workings of apt before, but from a quick glance > at the code in question it doesn't seem sensible to return the value of > RootDir for empty configuration values (as when RootDir isn't set it just > returns an empty string value in such circumstances I think). Thanks for the report & yes, from your description it seems wrong, but I haven't investigated it yet – note that "RootDir" isn't really used much due to it behaviour of being a prefix for all pathnames – even for absolute paths. You might want to try setting "Dir" instead. Best regards David Kalnischkies
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