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Re: unable to use backports repos



* Leonardo Carneiro - Veltrac <lscarneiro@veltrac.com.br> wrote:
>    Hello everyone. I added the backports repo to my source.list of my debian
>    lenny box and created a file named 'preferences' in my
>    /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ with the following content:
> 
>    server:/etc/apt/apt.conf.d# cat preferences
>    Package: *
>    Pin: release a=lenny-backports
>    Pin-Priority: 200
> 
>    When i try to do an 'apt-get update' i get the following error: E: Syntax
>    error /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/preferences:4: Extra junk at end of file
> 
>    but there is no line 4!
> 
>    Anyone knows what could be causing this?

This should be in /etc/apt/preferences, not in apt.conf.d.

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