Re: Could/should you set Dir::Cache::{pkgcache, srcpkgcache} = ""; if all you are doing is locally downloading dependencies of an installation package?
On Mon 04 Dec 2023 at 21:24:58 (+0000), Albretch Mueller wrote:
> On 12/2/23, David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> wrote:
> > Obviously I'm trying to replicate what you do.
> ...
> > Presumably you're running more commands than you revealed above?
>
> Yes, I am; for each " Depends: " package I have been using apt-get download
~# mkdir /tmp/acl2 ; cd $_
/tmp/acl2# apt-get download acl2
Get:1 http://deb.debian.org/debian bullseye/main amd64 acl2 amd64 8.3dfsg-2 [21.5 MB]
Fetched 21.5 MB in 2s (10.1 MB/s)
W: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file '/tmp/acl2/acl2_8.3dfsg-2_amd64.deb' couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
/tmp/acl2# ls -laR . /var/cache/apt
.:
total 21004
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Dec 4 17:11 .
drwxrwxrwt 17 root root 20480 Dec 4 17:10 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21481292 Jan 27 2021 acl2_8.3dfsg-2_amd64.deb
/var/cache/apt:
total 69356
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 4 15:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 May 2 2022 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 57344 Dec 4 09:27 archives
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35492253 Dec 4 15:00 pkgcache.bin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 35451043 Dec 4 15:00 srcpkgcache.bin
/var/cache/apt/archives:
total 68
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 57344 Dec 4 09:27 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Dec 4 15:00 ..
-rw-r----- 1 root root 0 Apr 16 2022 lock
drwx------ 2 _apt root 4096 Dec 4 09:18 partial
/var/cache/apt/archives/partial:
total 64
drwx------ 2 _apt root 4096 Dec 4 09:18 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 57344 Dec 4 09:27 ..
/tmp/acl2#
Still no extra .bin files.
Cheers,
David.
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