Control: tag -1 + confirmed patch
Control: severity -1 minor
Dear Jidanni,
積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> # aptitude-create-state-bundle /tmp/z
> tar: .//root/.aptitude: Cannot stat: No such file or directory
> tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors
>
> Well the man page says $HOME/.aptitude, which looks different than the
> above.
Not really. Depending on the user and the current working directory,
this is (and from my point of view also looks) the same.
> But what's the big deal? Why can't the program proceed if it isn't
> present?
Because tar trips over it.
Passing --ignore-failed-read to tar should suffice.
> Aptitude itself can still run, why not aptitude-create-state-bundle?
Because aptitude doesn't call tar.
> P.S., why not also grab a apt-config dump too?
Why should we? We already have that data by including /etc/apt/ in the
tar ball. Using "apt-config dump" whould just add completely
unnecessary complexity.
Regards, Axel
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