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

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>]

Dale Hair <dale@meridian-electric.com> writes:
>
>On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 07:06, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
>> 
>> [ ... ]
>> 
>>   # 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.
>>
>Leave a space between # and the line you're commenting out.

That still doesn't work for me ...

  # 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
 
Once again, when I remove the leading "# " from each of the "ruby*"
lines, everything works fine.

-- 
 Lloyd Zusman
 ljz@asfast.com