Florian Kulzer napisał(a):
You are missing the blank lines to separate the records:
$ man apt_preferences | awk '/Effect/,/^$/'
The Effect of APT Preferences
The APT preferences file allows the system administrator to control the
assignment of priorities. The file consists of one or more multi-line
records separated by blank lines. Records can have one of two forms, a
specific form and a general form.
If it still does not work with separated records then you should post
the output of e.g.
apt-cache policy gimp
records are separated by blank lines. I just didn't know that those blanks were essential and compressed the listing in the e-mail. sorry about the confusion. and it still doesn't work.
$ apt-cache policy gimp
gimp:
Installed: 2.2.13-1
Candidate: 2.2.13-1
Package pin: 2.2.13-1
Version table:
2.2.13-1 1001
500 ftp://ftp.task.gda.pl etch/main Packages
*** 2.2.13-1 1001
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status