Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>]

Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net> writes:

> On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 05:39, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
>> Is there a way to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?  I tried
>> various comment characters, but none worked.  I couldn't find anything
>> about this in the documentation.
>
> The hash (#) always works for me...

But the hash doesn't work for me on /etc/apt/preferences ...

  # cat /etc/apt/preferences
  Package: mplayer*
  Pin: release a=unstable
  Pin-Priority: 700

  #Package: ruby*
  #Pin: release a=unstable
  #Pin-Priority: 700

  Package: *
  Pin: release a=testing
  Pin-Priority: 650

  Package: *
  Pin: release a=unstable
  Pin-Priority: 600

  # apt-get update
  ... normal `apt-get update' output, followed by:
  E: Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header

If I remove the hashes before lines in the "ruby*" section, I no longer
get that error.

This seems to imply that the hash mark is not considered to be a proper
comment character in /etc/apt/preferences.


-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com