Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d

[Michael Lange <klappnase@freenet.de>]

Hi,

On Wed, 25 Jan 2017 07:18:07 +0100
Matthias Bodenbinder <matthias@bodenbinder.de> wrote:

(...)
> 
> I do not have that file /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02periodic. I put 
> /etc/cron.daily/apt back where it belongs and this morning the pinning 
> was screwed up again. This is really weird.

Then you could try to create the file and add the line 

APT::Periodic::Update-Package-Lists "0";

and see if that helps. Maybe your system somehow has a different default.

Regards

Michael


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