** Summary changed: - Downloading a package with root fails + Downloading a package with root warns
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to apt in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1547984 Title: Downloading a package with root warns Status in apt package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: I'm using Ubuntu 16.04 dev with apt 1.2.3 and on downloading a package with root I'm getting an error message like this example shows: root@ubuntu:~/tmp# apt-get download nvidia-settings Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 nvidia-settings amd64 361.28-0ubuntu1 [856 kB] Fetched 856 kB in 0s (1026 kB/s) W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/root/tmp/nvidia-settings_361.28-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied) The file gets created for root:root with the permissions 0644 and if I'm trying to download the file with my normal user it works successfully while also getting the same permissions. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/apt/+bug/1547984/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
