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

[Dale Hair <dale@meridian-electric.com>]

On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 11:12, will trillich wrote:
> 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?

That would work.  Remember that white space does has a meaning.

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Dale Hair <dale@meridian-electric.com>