Re: APT needs /var/lib/dpkg/

[Joey Hess]

Markus Kolb wrote:
> I want to use APT (apt-get and apt-cache) for some repository games as a 
> backend-tool. Of course as non-root user.
> Is there a possibility to tell apt-get and apt-cache to not look for 
> status-file and lock-file in /var/lib/dpkg/ instead in some other 
> directory?

Yes, the documentation explains how. Here is an example:

APT_GET=apt-get --assume-yes \
        -o Dir::Etc::sourcelist=$(CWD)$(SOURCES_LIST) \
        -o Dir::State=$(CWD)$(APTDIR)/state \
        -o Debug::NoLocking=true \
        -o Dir::Cache=$(CWD)$(APTDIR)/cache

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see shy jo

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