On Sat, 2001-10-13 at 19:27, Bruce Miller wrote: > I put in a lot of effort yesterday studying the man pages for apt and > apt_preferences as well as the APT HOWTO which is buried deep > in the Debian website. > > To no avail. apt turned up its nose at my feeble attempt to write a > preferences file. I usually beat my head against the brick wall until I > figure out obscure documentation but on this one, the patience isn't > forthcoming. > > Rather than ask help, if someone has a smoothly functioning > /etc/apt/preferences file which they would be willing to share, > please e-mail it to me ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and I will use it > to figure out where I went wrong on the concepts.
This question has been asked a lot recently. The list archive has the answer: There was extensive discussion on the list in June, since man apt_preferences is not particularly clear on several things. [EMAIL PROTECTED] has cleared a lot of things up for us in this very helpful post: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200106/msg00876.html -- I did not vote for the Austrian government
