On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 01:57:31PM +0300, Jari Aalto wrote: > [email protected] (Debian Bug Tracking System) writes: > > [repost for BTS] > > David Kalnischkies <[email protected]> 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> It's listed in /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz, which is referenced by apt.conf(5).
Anyway, not all applications support it yet, e.g. those that call ReadPinFile() but not ReadPinDir(). -- Julian Andres Klode - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
