Bug#910079: apt: fails to “download” local files saying it lacks permissions despite having them
I've just found this too.
Running as root from directory /root which is 700 by default I get this:
mymachine~# apt-get download base-files
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian buster/main amd64 base-files amd64 10.1 [69.4 kB]
Fetched 69.4 kB in 0s (0 B/s)
W: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '/root/base-files_10.1_amd64.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
I understand that apt-get is trying to do a sandboxed download and then
switches to unsandboxed when it realizes it can't do a sandboxed
download.
The main problem I see here is that the message is too verbose and too
scary for something which is usually harmless. I would prefer to see
something less verbose, for example:
W: Not enough privileges to perform sandboxed download
(Just an idea)
Thanks.
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