<mvo> lukasz: right, well, libapt supports building its cache entirely in 
memory and that should work. I agree its not ideal that it would be 
inconsistent - a alternative is to use the /etc/apt/auth file to store the 
credentials but that would require some additional work and testing but its 
defeinitely a good idea
<lukasz> mvo, so what would be a proposed solution? update libapt so for 
in-memory cache it ignored unreadable files?
<mvo> lukasz: that will help, but it seems like the cleaner solution is to 
teach aptsources in python-apt to write passwords in a debline to 
/etc/apt/auth.conf - that file is in netrc style and can be mode 0600. it 
should be honored by all http/https/ftp methods of apt. but that needs testing 
and I'm not sure if the libapt support for this file is bugfree as this is not 
featured used much yet

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