Re: apt-get is not following preferences.d

[davidson@freevolt.org]

On Fri, 27 Jan 2017, Michael Lange wrote:

> On Fri, 27 Jan 2017 07:00:19 +0100
> Matthias Bodenbinder <matthias@bodenbinder.de> wrote:
>
> > I created that file with this line but it does not help. Still the same
> > odd pinning after boot.
> >
> > So my problem might not be related to /etc/cron.daily/apt. I guess I
> > have to start searching again :-(
>
> Though the fact that removing the file helps seems to indicate that it
> actually is related.
> Have you read the documentation at the beginning of the file, maybe on
> your system the options are different than here (Jessie)?

Just for example, you might consider setting the verbosity to a
non-default, informative value in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/02periodic

[from the preamble comments in /etc/cron.daily/apt]
#  APT::Periodic::Verbose "0";
#  - Send report mail to root
#      0:  no report             (or null string)
#      1:  progress report       (actually any string)
#      2:  + command outputs     (remove -qq, remove 2>/dev/null, add -d)
#      3:  + trace on