Package: apt Version: 0.5.4 Severity: minor File: /usr/share/man/man8/apt-get.8.gz
gentlemen, if one messes up with the -o here, no error is raise, no warning is given apt-get -o Dir::Etc::Preferences=some/invalid/place \ -s install libc6 ...Building Dependency Tree... 50% Building Dependency Tree... 50% (funny, same line repated) The following extra packages will be installed: libc6-dev locales 3 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 685 not upgraded. Inst libc6-dev (2.3.1-9 Debian:unstable) [] Inst locales (2.3.1-9 Debian:unstable) [] Inst libc6 (2.3.1-9 Debian:unstable) Conf libc6 (2.3.1-9 Debian:unstable) Conf libc6-dev (2.3.1-9 Debian:unstable) Conf locales (2.3.1-9 Debian:unstable) at least make a note that no checks are made on the apt-get and apt.conf man pages. wait! some checks are indeed made: # apt-get -o Dir::Etc::Preferences=$PWD \ -s install libc6 E: Read error - read (21 Is a directory) so dirs will be caught but not files! -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.19-k7 #1 Sun Oct 6 20:29:56 EST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5 Versions of packages apt depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-12 The GNU stdc++ library -- no debconf information
