Bug#806595: aptitude: Changelog download throws warning: "W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/tmp/aptitude-root.15442:qGi6mn/aptitudeDownload6J+8J:+PsVGmTNm^.^::Lz:%.Hi55VKA' couldn't b

Hi, 2016-02-09 17:41 Matijs van Zuijlen: Is there any way to avoid this warning? It is especially annoying in the TUI, since it creates a pop-up that needs to be dismissed. 2016-02-11 22:21 Ben Finney: There must be some extra difference, more than the ownership or permission of those

Bug#806595: aptitude: Changelog download throws warning: "W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/tmp/aptitude-root.15442:qGi6mn/aptitudeDownload6J+8J:+PsVGmTNm^.^::Lz:%.Hi55VKA' couldn't b

Hi, On Sat, 5 Dec 2015 23:43:49 + "Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo" wrote: > Hi, > > 2015-11-29 13:29 Axel Beckert: > >Package: aptitude > >Version: 0.7.4-2 > > > >Hi, > > > >on the commandline as well in the TUI, aptitude throws a warning when > >trying to

Bug#806595: aptitude: Changelog download throws warning: "W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/tmp/aptitude-root.15442:qGi6mn/aptitudeDownload6J+8J:+PsVGmTNm^.^::Lz:%.Hi55VKA' couldn't b

2016-02-04 10:09 Marcel Partap: Uhhm.. so why does it try to write to a dir calculably owned by root with dropped privileges in the first place? Somewhat bothersome :/ Because libapt changed the behaviour recently: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=806595#22 Cheers. --

Bug#806595: aptitude: Changelog download throws warning: "W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/tmp/aptitude-root.15442:qGi6mn/aptitudeDownload6J+8J:+PsVGmTNm^.^::Lz:%.Hi55VKA' couldn't b

I'm getting these same warnings, both for root and regular user, so i found this bug report. >In my system, both dirs' permissions are 700 and owned by _apt:root, >it doesn't emit any error and changelog works fine, no warnings. Anyway on my system (Debian stretch/testing, aptitude 0.7.4-2): $

Bug#806595: aptitude: Changelog download throws warning: "W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/tmp/aptitude-root.15442:qGi6mn/aptitudeDownload6J+8J:+PsVGmTNm^.^::Lz:%.Hi55VKA' couldn't b

Hi, 2015-11-29 13:29 Axel Beckert: Package: aptitude Version: 0.7.4-2 Hi, on the commandline as well in the TUI, aptitude throws a warning when trying to download and display a changelog as root as well as user: As root: # aptitude changelog apt > /dev/null W: Can't drop privileges for

Bug#806595: aptitude: Changelog download throws warning: "W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/tmp/aptitude-root.15442:qGi6mn/aptitudeDownload6J+8J:+PsVGmTNm^.^::Lz:%.Hi55VKA' couldn't b

Hi, Axel Beckert wrote: > on the commandline as well in the TUI, aptitude throws a warning when > trying to download and display a changelog as root as well as user: Forgot to mention: This happens since aptitude has been compiled against 1.1 and shows up with all three apt releases since then

Bug#806595: aptitude: Changelog download throws warning: "W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file '/tmp/aptitude-root.15442:qGi6mn/aptitudeDownload6J+8J:+PsVGmTNm^.^::Lz:%.Hi55VKA' couldn't b

Package: aptitude Version: 0.7.4-2 Hi, on the commandline as well in the TUI, aptitude throws a warning when trying to download and display a changelog as root as well as user: As root: # aptitude changelog apt > /dev/null W: Can't drop privileges for downloading as file