Package: aptitude
Version: 0.4.6.1-1
Severity: wishlist
I invoke aptitude with "sudo aptitude" instead of "sudo -H aptitude"
so my .aptitude/config will be read (instead of root's).
The /home filesystem is an NFS mount with -o root_squash, so root can
read from but not write to ~/.aptitude:
$ stat -L ~/.aptitude
File: `/home/twb/.aptitude'
Size: 4096 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 32768 directory
Device: 15h/21d Inode: 8702031 Links: 2
Access: (0750/drwxr-x---) Uid: ( 1187/ twb) Gid: ( 2000/ cyber)
Access: 2007-09-18 09:23:14.000000000 +1000
Modify: 2007-09-17 05:46:40.000000000 +1000
Change: 2007-09-17 05:46:40.000000000 +1000
Thus, every time aptitude (in GUI mode) starts up it complains:
E: /home/twb/.aptitude is readable but not writable; unable to
write configuration file.
This is annoying. I don't really want to give all users write access
to ~/.aptitude. I don't want to copy ~/.aptitude to each host's
~root/.aptitude; it would be tedious and probably irritate other
admins who prefer different configuration. (This is the same argument
against customizing root in other ways, such as changing the default
shell to csh.)
Instead I would like to be able to configure aptitude (via
~/.aptitude/config) to defer reporting this "error" until it actually
needs to modify ~/.aptitude, which in my case will be never because I
have already configured aptitude to my liking.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-2-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.6-6 0.7.6 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.6.1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.2.1-5 GCC support library
ii libncursesw5 5.6+20070908-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-2.0-0c2a 2.0.17-2 type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++6 4.2.1-5 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
Versions of packages aptitude recommends:
ii aptitude-doc-en [aptitude-doc 0.4.6.1-1 English manual for aptitude, a ter
ii libparse-debianchangelog-perl 1.1.1-1 parse Debian changelogs and output
-- no debconf information
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