<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,153)">Always RTFM...<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,153)">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.<br>
</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,153)">I get the same problem whether I use aptitude or apt-get, the '.' is not tolerated. Strange.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,153)">
No bug then, maybe just a feature I consider not being intuitive.<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small;color:rgb(51,51,153)">Thanks for the quick & efficient answer!<br></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<div><div dir="ltr"><font size="1"><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">---<br></span><b><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)">Bernard Rosset</span></b></font><font size="1"><b><span style="color:rgb(102,102,102)"><br></span></b></font></div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Axel Beckert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:abe@debian.org" target="_blank">abe@debian.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Hi Bernard,<br>
<br>
Bernard Rosset wrote:<br>
> Package: aptitude<br>
> Version : 0.6.3-3.2+squeeze1<br>
><br>
> The content of files in /etc/apt/preferences.d/* are not taken into account<br>
> by aptitude. You still need to use /etc/apt/preferences<br>
> Following the bug report<br>
> #557580<<a href="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557580" target="_blank">http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=557580</a>>,<br>
> this bug is already supposed being resolved by aptituve v0.6.3-3.2:<br>
[...]<br>
> me@pc:~$ cat /etc/apt/preferences.d/deb-multimedia.list<br>
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According to the documentation, a file with this file name will be<br>
ignored by apt, too, so it should be correct if aptitude ignores it:<br>
<br>
>From apt_preferences(5):<br>
<br>
    Note that the files in the /etc/apt/preferences.d directory are<br>
    parsed in alphanumeric ascending order and need to obey the<br>
    following naming convention: The files have no or "pref" as<br>
    filename extension and which only contain alphanumeric, hyphen<br>
    (-), underscore (_) and period (.) characters - otherwise they<br>
    will be silently ignored.<br>
<br>
So please check:<br>
<br>
* Does "apt-get" / "apt-cache policy" also ignore that file?<br>
* Does aptitude no more ignore the file if you remove the .list file<br>
 name suffix?<br>
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        Regards, Axel<br>
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