On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 03:22:51PM +0000, Clint Adams wrote: > On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 02:41:01PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > > I tracked this down to apt-cache now failing to work under fakeroot: > > > > $ fakeroot apt-cache policy coreutils > > E: Could not open file /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin - open (13: Permission > > denied) > > E: Failed to truncate file - ftruncate (9: Bad file descriptor) > > E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened. > > This isn't relevant to the more general problem, but I have to wonder > why apt-cache policy would ever need to write > to /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin If mtime on any index or the list of indexes changed changed, the cache must be rebuilt (index=Packages list or status file).
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