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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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