Package: apt-utils Version: 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 Severity: normal I was trying to dist-upgrade chroot'd environment. I created configuration file with:
RootDir "/tmp/mychroot"; and pointed APT_CONFIG to it. Then I ran: # export APT_CONFIG # apt-get update # apt-get dist-upgrade apt-get dist-upgrade failed after downloading packages as it was not able to extract templates. Many errors were reported saying: E: Could not open file /var/cache/apt/archives/<package> - open (2: No such file or directory) E: Unable to determine the file size - fstat (9: Bad file descriptor) E: Read error - read (9: Bad file descriptor) It suggests, that apt-extracttemplates (and maybe other components) does not honor RootDir option. The packages were downloaded to the chroot'd environment, but apt-extracttemplated looked them up in the primary environment. I was able to workaround this with setting: Dpkg::Chroot-Directory "/tmp/mychroot"; in the APT_CONFIG file. However, this caused dpkg to be chrooted to /tmp/mychroot/tmp/mychroot, which obviously does not exist. The only possible workaround seems to be to chroot whole 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. # chroot /tmp/mychroot apt-get dist-upgrade -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.6 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.37.6 (SMP w/4 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=cs_CZ.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=cs_CZ.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages apt-utils depends on: ii apt [libapt-pkg4.10] 0.8.10.3+squeeze1 Advanced front-end for dpkg ii libc6 2.11.3-4 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libdb4.8 4.8.30-2 Berkeley v4.8 Database Libraries [ ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 apt-utils recommends no packages. apt-utils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
