severity 774698 important
thanks

On Tue, 06 Jan 2015 13:14:44 +0100
Johannes Schauer <[email protected]> wrote:

> multistrap sets the Dir::Etc apt configuration option on the command
> line.
> 
> But this has no effect because the config files are read before the
> commandline is. Thus, apt run by multistrap will parse the host
> system's apt configuration first.
> 
> To prevent this, the APT_CONFIG environment variable can be used and
> pointed at a custom apt configuration in the target directory.
> 
> Thanks!

This likely explains a number of hard to reproduce bugs which have been
seen with multistrap in the past (unless apt has recently changed
behaviour in this regard).

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Neil Williams
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