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has caused the Debian Bug report #285334,
regarding aptitude: Creates files in arbitrary dir, AND Fails to interpret "%s"
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285334: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=285334
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.2.15.8-1
Severity: normal
pryzbyj@cyberia:~$ aptitude show valgrind-callgrind |head -1
E: /home/pryzbyj/.aptitude/config - Unable to open %s for writing (13
Permission denied)
Package: valgrind-callgrind
...
I usually run with sudo, which explains the error message. (Though
one might argue that aptitude show chdir(getpwent(getuid));).
My ownly claim here is that the user should not see "%s".
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (101, 'testing'), (99, 'unstable'), (9, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.9-rc1
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages aptitude depends on:
ii apt [libapt-pkg-libc6.3-5-3 0.5.27 Advanced front-end for dpkg
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libgcc1 1:3.4.2-2 GCC support library
ii libncurses5 5.4-4 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii libsigc++-1.2-5c102 1.2.5-1 Type-safe Signal Framework for C++
ii libstdc++5 1:3.3.4-13 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
-- no debconf information
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 0.4.2-1
commit 6bb3c7a377ec293d2e6383c26d2821e8e6f4288a
Author: Daniel Burrows <[email protected]>
Date: Sat Jan 28 19:43:06 2006 +0000
[aptitude @ Fix uses of Errno that passed the description as the
function name, thus breaking error reporting. (Closes: #350264)]
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