On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:55 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > apt-get has -C option to use non-standard /etc/apt/sources.list > listing unstable distribution:
This is the wrong way to completely override the system apt configuration. The right way is to set the APT_CONFIG environment variable. See the apt.conf(5) manual page, APT_CONFIG is the first method that apt uses to find the config file and the -C command-line option is the very last one so it cannot prevent loading all the system config. The chdist tool (from devscripts), the apt-venv package and the derivatives census code get this correct. I definitely agree that apt-get could be used to download packages from repositories, especially since it will verify hashes and signatures. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
