Bug#910079: Re: apt: fails to “download” local files saying it lacks permissions despite having them
On Wed, May 15, 2019 at 12:10:58PM +0000, Thorsten Glaser wrote:
> Santiago Vila dixit:
>
> >What Thorsten reported is a real failure. Mine is just an undesired
> >warning. (Not sure if they have a common cause)
>
> Might be. I'm seeing it too. You suggested...
>
> >W: Not enough privileges to perform sandboxed download
>
> ... but a per-sources.list-line option to turn off even
> that would be good, as in "yes I know, apt, but you'll
> have to live with it".
I plan to have _apt gone soon for local downloads when opening
the file, restricting it to only run the {de-,}compressor as
_apt; and perform the rest as root (so root actually verifies the
stuff _apt gives it...).
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