[Pkg-ia32-libs-maintainers] Bug#535473: Bug#535473: ia32-apt-get seems to ignore directory settings in apt.conf

[Ole Marggraf]

Hi,

> Indeed, ia32-apt-get assumes the default paths are in use. I never
> heart of anyone changing them for the system wide config. I will have
> to add code to support that.
>
> Meanwhile is there any reason why you didn't use bind mounts?
>  mount --bind /myaptetc_amd64/cache /var/cache/apt
>  mount --bind /myaptetc_amd64/lists /var/lib/apt/lists
>  ...

There is some odd things out there... ;)

Actually, it is some very old, grown structure. We tried it back then and 
it worked, so we never touched it again... Using a bind mount is an 
interesting idea, just never came up to my mind in this particular case. 
Maybe I will give it a try some lazy day. Thanks for the hint.

> I will use apt-config to parse the systems apt.conf and extract the
> relevant paths from that instead of the hardcoded paths in use now.

Great, thanks!

Regards,

Ole