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Re: apt.conf doesn't have effect anymore



On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:59:04PM +0100, Dvorzhetsky wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm mainly using lenny, but I have as well sid and experimental
> repositories in my sources.list. To give priority to lenny I use
> apt.conf file. 
> 
> Every thing was fine until I decided to had a third party repository for
> lenny. Unlike debian repositories, the version of debian is in the path,
> it doesn't appear as an argument. I was concern that my apt.conf would
> not work properly so I commented experimental and sid repos and renamed
> apt.conf to apt.conf.bak. I installed what I wanted and stayed with an
> exclusively lenny sources.list for a while. It was fine.
> 
> Now I don't use the third party repos anymore, I removed it from my
> sources.list uncommented sid and experimental repos and got back my
> apt.conf But even after apt-get update the other repos do not seams to
> be taken in account by apt. apt-cache policy xxx only give me the lenny
> version.
> 
> I can't remember to have run in any error during these apt process.
> 
> Anyone knows how to get back things as normal?

I you want to get help with this it would be wise to include your 
sources.list, apt.conf and output of 'apt-cache policy'.

Regards,
Andrei
-- 
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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