Re: [PLUG] Pinning certain packages in Debian testing ...

[Mike Leone <turgon@mike-leone.com>]

sean finney wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 11:52 -0400, Mike Leone wrote:
> > This doesn't work, in my preferences file ...
> >
> >    Package: postfix
> >    Pin: release a=testing
> >    Pin-Priority: 2000
> >            
> >    Package: postfix-pcre
> >    Pin: release a=testing
> >    Pin-Priority: 2000
> >                        
> >    Package: postfix-ldap
> >    Pin: release a=testing
> >    Pin-Priority: 2000
> >
> > When I go to install a package, I get:
> >
> > root@cliff-claven:/etc/apt# aptitude install logcheck logcheck-database
> > Reading package lists... Done
> > E: Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header
> > E: Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header
>
>
> hrm... are you sure you don't have some kind of funny non-printing
> character or something in the file?  maybe dos newlines instead of unix
> newlines?  that set of prefs works fine on my box anyway...

That was it ... I think they were tabs or newlines in there ... seems to 
be working now. Thanks.

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