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

[Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com>]

andrej hocevar <ah@siol.net> writes:

> 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.

Yep.  That worked.  Finally!

Thank you.

So ... now I'm off to see if someone has already submitted a bug report
about this less-than-ideal commenting behavior; and if not, I'll submit
one myself.


> 	andrej
>
> [ ... ]

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