Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?
On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:39:15AM -0500, 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.
I used to do hush trick without thinking too much but ...
Since this file format is same as mail header, adding
X-comment: whatever you want to write
Seems to be the right approach. (Hush can be considered another header
but ...)
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/examples/preferences.testing
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