Hi,
2016-02-09 17:41 Matijs van Zuijlen:
Is there any way to avoid this warning? It is especially annoying in the TUI,
since it creates a pop-up that needs to be dismissed.
2016-02-11 22:21 Ben Finney:
There must be some extra difference, more than the ownership or
permission of those dire
Hi,
On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 23:43:49 + "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo"
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2015-11-29 13:29 Axel Beckert:
> >Package: aptitude
> >Version: 0.7.4-2
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >on the commandline as well in the TUI, aptitude throws a warning when
> >trying to download and display a changelog as
2016-02-04 10:09 Marcel Partap:
Uhhm.. so why does it try to write to a dir calculably owned by root
with dropped privileges in the first place? Somewhat bothersome :/
Because libapt changed the behaviour recently:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=806595#22
Cheers.
--
Manuel
I'm getting these same warnings, both for root and regular user, so
i found this bug report.
>In my system, both dirs' permissions are 700 and owned by _apt:root,
>it doesn't emit any error and changelog works fine, no warnings.
Anyway on my system (Debian stretch/testing, aptitude 0.7.4-2):
$ l
Hi,
2015-11-29 13:29 Axel Beckert:
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.7.4-2
Hi,
on the commandline as well in the TUI, aptitude throws a warning when
trying to download and display a changelog as root as well as user:
As root:
# aptitude changelog apt > /dev/null
W: Can't drop privileges for downl
Hi,
Axel Beckert wrote:
> on the commandline as well in the TUI, aptitude throws a warning when
> trying to download and display a changelog as root as well as user:
Forgot to mention: This happens since aptitude has been compiled
against 1.1 and shows up with all three apt releases since then (1
Package: aptitude
Version: 0.7.4-2
Hi,
on the commandline as well in the TUI, aptitude throws a warning when
trying to download and display a changelog as root as well as user:
As root:
# aptitude changelog apt > /dev/null
W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file
'/tmp/aptitude-root.15
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