Hi! On Mon, 2025-08-11 at 22:10:34 +0200, Ferenc Wágner wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.21.22 > Severity: minor
> "man dpkg" says: > > DPKG_ROOT > [...] When installing packages into a different instdir, dpkg > normally invokes maintainer scripts using chroot(2) and leaves > this variable empty, but if --force-script-chrootless is specified > then the chroot(2) call is skipped and instdir is non-empty. > > The above would make more sense to me if the "instdir" reference in the > last line was "DPKG_ROOT", so I suspect a typo here. Please fix the > documentation or my confusion. This would be the directory that is being set when using --instdir, which --root ends up setting as well as --admindir. Perhaps if that read closer to `--instdir` that would have been more clear? Thanks, Guillem
