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



On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 05:07:04PM -0200, andrej hocevar wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 09:59:10AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote:
> > 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
> 
> You should remove at least one of those empty lines -- either
> before or after the comments -- or both of them.

hmm. if that's the case, it looks like you might be able to ADD
a has to one of the blank lines, to accomplish the same trick.

no?

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