Re: users not reading manpages annoyance [was: apt annoyance]

2021-10-30 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, 2021-10-30 at 12:52 +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: > I bootstrap exclusively using apt and dpkg, with a few minor tweaks so > that apt can reliably generate a successful install plan when installing > the initial essential packages after dpkg has unpacked them. Sounds like you should take a lo

Re: users not reading manpages annoyance [was: apt annoyance]

2021-10-30 Thread Tim Woodall
an apt-thread on debian-devel? (so now, where were I before this 'emergency call' came in? mhhh) Apologies. I thought "apt annoyance" was a fitting title as that is all it is, an annoyance. I can, and have, worked around the "must be same filesystem" by doing a cd

Re: users not reading manpages annoyance [was: apt annoyance]

2021-10-30 Thread David Kalnischkies
On Sat, Oct 30, 2021 at 10:14:15AM +0100, Tim Woodall wrote: > When doing apt-get download -o RootDir=. apt > once it's downloaded the package it effectively tries to move it to > ./$( pwd )/ > > (the prefix is whatever RootDir points to) instead of moving to > $( pwd )/ > > This causes it to fa

apt annoyance

2021-10-30 Thread Tim Woodall
When doing apt-get download -o RootDir=. apt once it's downloaded the package it effectively tries to move it to ./$( pwd )/ (the prefix is whatever RootDir points to) instead of moving to $( pwd )/ This causes it to fail unless you do a mkdir -p ./$( readlink -f $( pwd ) ) Is this a bug or a