Make sure to run that by the security team. Don't want to hear 'bout no loopholes.
Luke On 12/15/07, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Package: apt > Version: 0.7.10 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > There are times when it would be nice to be able to force apt to use > a different directory tree for everything. Setting "Dir" to a new > location won't work, because absolute paths in the Dir hierarchy will > override this. I propose creating a new option, "RootDir", that changes > the root under which filenames in the Dir hierarchy are placed. This > effectively means that the new directory is prepended to all filenames > returned by FindFile. > > The attached patch adds support for RootDir to apt and documents it. > > Daniel > > -- Package-specific info: > > -- (/etc/apt/preferences present, but not submitted) -- > > > -- (/etc/apt/sources.list present, but not submitted) -- > > > -- System Information: > Debian Release: lenny/sid > APT prefers unstable > APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable') > Architecture: i386 (i686) > > Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) > Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: > LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8) > Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash > > Versions of packages apt depends on: > ii debian-archive-keyring 2007.07.31 GnuPG archive keys of the > Debian a > ii libc6 2.7-4 GNU C Library: Shared > libraries > ii libgcc1 1:4.3-20071130-1 GCC support library > ii libstdc++6 4.3-20071130-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library > v3 > > apt recommends no packages. > > -- no debconf information > >
