Public bug reported:
Version: 0.8.16~exp5ubuntu8
Release: 11.10
I've noticed some odd behaviour from apt-cache policy where it pretends,
without protest, that package versions in PPAs don't exist.
The trigger seems to be a newly-added source whose .list file I set up
to be only readable by root (it contains authentication information).
When any file in /etc/apt/sources.list.d is unreadable, apt-cache won't
try to read further files, and it also apparently discards information
from any of the files it did manage to read. (Assuming it reads them as
it goes — I was only tracing calls to open(2).)
** Affects: apt (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Summary changed:
- apt-cache policy silently shows inaccurate information when any file in
/etc/apt/sources.list.d are unreadable
+ apt-cache policy silently shows inaccurate information when any file in
/etc/apt/sources.list.d is unreadable
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Title:
apt-cache policy silently shows inaccurate information when any file
in /etc/apt/sources.list.d is unreadable
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