Dale Hair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 07:06, Lloyd Zusman wrote: >> >> [ ... ] >> >> # apt-get update >> ... normal `apt-get update' output, followed by: >> E: Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header >> >> If I remove the hashes before lines in the "ruby*" section, I no longer >> get that error. >> >> This seems to imply that the hash mark is not considered to be a proper >> comment character in /etc/apt/preferences. >> >Leave a space between # and the line you're commenting out.
That still doesn't work for me ... # cat /etc/apt/preferences Package: mplayer* Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 700 # Package: ruby* # Pin: release a=unstable # Pin-Priority: 700 Package: * Pin: release a=testing Pin-Priority: 650 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 600 # apt-get update ... normal `apt-get update' output, followed by: E: Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header Once again, when I remove the leading "# " from each of the "ruby*" lines, everything works fine. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
