On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 10:14:15AM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: > When doing apt-get download -o RootDir=. apt > once it's downloaded the package it effectively tries to move it to > ./$( pwd )/ > > (the prefix is whatever RootDir points to) instead of moving to > $( pwd )/ > > This causes it to fail unless you do a > mkdir -p ./$( readlink -f $( pwd ) ) > > Is this a bug or a feature?
Working as intended. 'download' wants to store the package in the current directory, so it gets the absolute path name to that as "current directory" isn't a very stable property. With RootDir (as the manpage explains) you say: Whatever the path, stick this in front of it – so you get what you asked for… RootDir has some uses if you deal with chroots from the outside, but fiddling even with absolute paths is usually not what you want – the manpage mentions Dir which effects only "relative" paths (most paths in apt like where it finds its config files are relative to Dir – which by default is '/' making it an absolute path in the process). As you fiddle with directories you are likely to need APT_CONFIG as that is parsed before the configuration files (and so can effect where those are) and long before the command line is looked at (all at length explained in the apt.conf manpage). There is no option to set 'download's target directory from current directory to another place at the moment. Shouldn't be incredibly hard to implement if someone wanted to try (apt-private/private-download.cc → DoDownload() → implement an option who sets Dir::Cache::Archives to something else than the absolute CWD – absolute? I already mentioned what would happen otherwise, so connecting the dots is left as an exercise for the reader). So, what are you actually trying to do? And next time, try to pick a slightly more sensible title and perhaps even a more fitting place to ask first… I am ever so slightly annoyed if I am kicked into high gear expecting a world ending disaster as it escalated to an apt-thread on debian-devel… (so now, where were I before this 'emergency call' came in… mhhh) Best regards David Kalnischkies
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