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authorGabriel Filion <lelutin@gmail.com>2012-09-20 04:08:38 -0400
committerGabriel Filion <lelutin@gmail.com>2012-09-20 04:08:38 -0400
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Precision on file name format in preferences.d directory
Signed-off-by: Gabriel Filion <lelutin@gmail.com>
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@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ Example:
apt::preferences_snippet
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-A way to add pinning information to /etc/apt/preferences
+A way to add pinning information to files in /etc/apt/preferences.d/
Example:
@@ -325,6 +325,17 @@ Example:
priority => 999;
}
+The names of the resources will be used as the names of the files in the
+preferences.d directory, so you should ensure that resource names follow the
+prescribed naming scheme.
+
+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.
+
apt::preseeded_package
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