Control: tag -1 + moreinfo Hi Bernard,
Bernard Rosset wrote: > Package: aptitude > Version : 0.6.3-3.2+squeeze1 > > The content of files in /etc/apt/preferences.d/* are not taken into account > by aptitude. You still need to use /etc/apt/preferences > Following the bug report > #557580<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557580>, > this bug is already supposed being resolved by aptituve v0.6.3-3.2: [...] > me@pc:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/deb-multimedia.list According to the documentation, a file with this file name will be ignored by apt, too, so it should be correct if aptitude ignores it: >From apt_preferences(5): Note that the files in the /etc/apt/preferences.d directory are parsed in alphanumeric ascending order and need to obey the following naming convention: The files have no or "pref" as filename extension and which only contain alphanumeric, hyphen (-), underscore (_) and period (.) characters - otherwise they will be silently ignored. So please check: * Does "apt-get" / "apt-cache policy" also ignore that file? * Does aptitude no more ignore the file if you remove the .list file name suffix? Regards, Axel -- ,''`. | Axel Beckert <[email protected]>, http://people.debian.org/~abe/ : :' : | Debian Developer, ftp.ch.debian.org Admin `. `' | 1024D: F067 EA27 26B9 C3FC 1486 202E C09E 1D89 9593 0EDE `- | 4096R: 2517 B724 C5F6 CA99 5329 6E61 2FF9 CD59 6126 16B5 _______________________________________________ Aptitude-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/aptitude-devel
