On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 5:17 PM, Malte Forkel <malte.for...@berlin.de> wrote: > $ fakeroot apt-getfrom -s "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian stable \ > main" download debian-archive-keyring > Failed to open connection to "system" message bus: Did not receive a > reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a > reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply > timeout expired, or the network connection was broken.
Without the code we will never be sure, but this sounds like a message from a dbus client. It's at least nothing apt-get would print as it is one of the few lower-level tools not talking over dbus so far … SCNR I presume your script runs 'apt-get update' and you have something installed which plugs into one or more of the hooks: APT::Update::Pre-Invoke APT::Update::Post-Invoke-Success APT::Update::Post-Invoke In your case it is probably 'aptdaemon' which wants to be notified about changes to indexes, but in these slots could possibly be a multitude of different stuff which all think they are executed by root … As your 'update' is not one for the system these hooks probably shouldn't be run, so easiest option is to #clear them; see the apt.conf manpage for that. Way better is to not use the configuration present in /etc/apt/ at all. You can achieve this by using a configuration file defined by the environment variable APT_CONFIG and setting the paths to the respective directories to something you have absolute control over. See in the apt sourcecode the file test/integration/framework, specifically the setupenvironment function in it, to have an example of what can be done if you pull the right strings. (aka: With a bit of setup you can even install packages in a temporary directory as user -- wouldn't try it with real packages through: Maintainerscripts probably cry hovak in such a "faked" "chroot" …) I wonder what you script is used for through. Why do you want/need to provide a mirror? What is it that you can't just use e.g. apt-get download debian-archive-keyring/stable (beside that this functionality is not in squeeze of course, but aptitude has a similar command - but I haven't tried) If you can convince me, the functionality might magically appear one day in an APT version … ;) Best regards David Kalnischkies, who has an phone which makes heavy use of dbus, so he really shouldn't make lame jokes about dbus… -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAAZ6_fC53Vne67hv3Mfe8hyyANG=ct9qyr_jsrago18azfb...@mail.gmail.com
