Bug#544017: apt: [man] document use of /etc/apt/preferences.d/ directory

[Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>]

owner@bugs.debian.org (Debian Bug Tracking System) writes:

[repost for BTS]

David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies+debian@gmail.com> writes:

> Version: 0.7.22
>
> Hi Jari Aalto,
>
> first of all: thanks for your report!
>
>> Please add pinning configuration possiblity via separate files
>
> reading the debian/changelog for version 0.7.22 says:
> [...]
>   [ Julian Andres Klode ]
> [...]
>   * Support /etc/apt/preferences.d, by adding ReadPinDir() (Closes: #535512)
> [...]
>
> So, if your version information is correct you should already have such a
> directory and it should work as you requested it here. :)

That's good news.

Please update also the documentation, if I'm not mistaken to find it [1]:

    $ zgrep -i 'preferences\.d' /usr/share/man/man*/apt*.gz
    <nothing>

    $ dpkg -l apt
    0.7.23 apt

Jari

[1]
$  ls -1 /usr/share/man/man*/apt*.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/apt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/apt-build.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/apt-extracttemplates.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/apt-file.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/apt-ftparchive.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/aptitude-create-state-bundle.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/aptitude-run-state-bundle.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/apt-show-versions.1p.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/apt-sortpkgs.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/apt.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/apt_preferences.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/apt.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/apt-cache.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/apt-cacher-ng.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/apt-cdrom.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/apt-config.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/apt-get.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/aptitude.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/apt-key.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/apt-mark.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/apt-rdepends.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/apt-secure.8.gz