Bug#372901: [Pkg-uml-pkgs] Bug#372901: problem with setting multiple blocks in /etc/apt/preferences

[Mattia Dongili]

On Sun, Sep 17, 2006 at 06:03:46PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> reopen 372901
> thanks
> 
> Hi,
> 
> unfortunately ConfigParser.py does not preserve empty lines indented
> with whitespace, so setting something like
> 
> preferences=
>  Packages: *
>  Pin: release unstable
>  Pin-Priority: 300
> 
>  Packages: *
>  Pin: release testing
>  Pin-Priority: 400
> 
> ends as a single entry in /etc/apt/preferences and apt and friends do
> not interpret this as I intended.

argh! I only tested one preferences entry...

> As a workaround I changed the following in modules/debian:
> 
>     echo "$preferences" | sed -e '/^Pin-Priority/I s/$/\n/' \
>         >> $TARGET/etc/apt/preferences
> 
> This assumes that pin-priority is the last line of an preferences entry.

yes, for this reason I'd prefer using a dot-only line used as separator,
eg:
  Pin:...
  Pin-Priority: 300
  .
  Packages: *
  Pin:...

This is common already in debian packaging files (and probably others)
and doesn't impose any other constraint.

-- 
mattia
:wq!