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  1. Bug #1238616
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1238616

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 1238616] Re: creating apt cache with rootdir= still considers global apt config

Hello Julian,

Julian Andres Klode [2013-10-11 15:47 -0000]:
> We are limited here, because APT uses a global configuration instance,
> so in order to use the configuration of the other root directory, we'd
> have to drop the other configuration because they cannot co-exist.

Does that mean it's not possible to ignore /etc/apt/, or that I'm
doing something wrong? I. e. can you reset the Cache() object somehow
to ignore those global settings?

Thanks!