[Aptitude-devel] Bug#701664: Bug#701664: Aptitude 0.6.3-3.2+squeeze1 still ignores /etc/apt/preferences.d/*

[Bernard Rosset]

Always RTFM...

The '.list' extension was a mimic of my sources list files, I was not
thinking it would cause trouble, even though I thought about that
hypothesis doing it.
I get the same problem whether I use aptitude or apt-get, the '.' is not
tolerated. Strange.

No bug then, maybe just a feature I consider not being intuitive.

Thanks for the quick & efficient answer!
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*Bernard Rosset**
*


On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> wrote:

> Control: tag -1 + moreinfo
>
> Hi Bernard,
>
> Bernard Rosset wrote:
> > Package: aptitude
> > Version : 0.6.3-3.2+squeeze1
> >
> > The content of files in /etc/apt/preferences.d/* are not taken into
> account
> > by aptitude. You still need to use /etc/apt/preferences
> > Following the bug report
> > #557580<http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557580>,
> > this bug is already supposed being resolved by aptituve v0.6.3-3.2:
> [...]
> > me at pc:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/deb-multimedia.list
>
> According to the documentation, a file with this file name will be
> ignored by apt, too, so it should be correct if aptitude ignores it:
>
> From apt_preferences(5):
>
>        Note that the files in the /etc/apt/preferences.d directory are
>        parsed in alphanumeric ascending order and need to obey the
>        following naming convention: The files have no or "pref" as
>        filename extension and which only contain alphanumeric, hyphen
>        (-), underscore (_) and period (.) characters - otherwise they
>        will be silently ignored.
>
> So please check:
>
> * Does "apt-get" / "apt-cache policy" also ignore that file?
> * Does aptitude no more ignore the file if you remove the .list file
>   name suffix?
>
>                 Regards, Axel
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