Bug#903552: apt: complains about "unsandboxed download" and undocumented config parameter "pkgAcquire::Run"
Control: forcemerge 866329 885928 -1
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 02:17:37AM -0700, Ian Bruce wrote:
> Package: apt
> Version: 1.6.2
> Severity: important
>
> # apt-get source inkscape
> Reading package lists... Done
> Selected version '0.92.3-2' (testing) for inkscape
> NOTICE: 'inkscape' packaging is maintained in the 'Git' version control system
> at:
> https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/inkscape.git
> Please use:
> git clone https://salsa.debian.org/multimedia-team/inkscape.git
> to retrieve the latest (possibly unreleased) updates to the package.
> Need to get 31.6 MB of source archives.
> Get:1 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main inkscape 0.92.3-2 (dsc)
> [2891 B]
> Get:2 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main inkscape 0.92.3-2 (tar)
> [31.6 MB]
> Get:3 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main inkscape 0.92.3-2 (asc) [181
> B]
> Get:4 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/main inkscape 0.92.3-2 (diff)
> [28.2 kB]
> Fetched 31.6 MB in 46s (687 kB/s)
> dpkg-source: info: extracting inkscape in inkscape-0.92.3
> dpkg-source: info: unpacking inkscape_0.92.3.orig.tar.bz2
> dpkg-source: info: unpacking inkscape_0.92.3-2.debian.tar.xz
> dpkg-source: info: applying 0001-Drop_PS_and_PDF_support_in_MimeType.patch
> dpkg-source: info: applying 0002-typos-libcroco.patch
> dpkg-source: info: applying upstream/trunk/15400.patch
> W: Download is performed unsandboxed as root as file 'inkscape_0.92.3-2.dsc'
> couldn't be accessed by user '_apt'. \
> - pkgAcquire::Run (13: Permission denied)
(1) Don't download stuff as root
(2) pkgAcquire::Run is the name of the function that failed, as always
We already have various bugs for (1), so I'm merging this one with
those.
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