On Thu, Jan 23, 2003 at 06:39:15AM -0500, Lloyd Zusman wrote: > Is there a way to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences? I tried > various comment characters, but none worked. I couldn't find anything > about this in the documentation.
I used to do hush trick without thinking too much but ... Since this file format is same as mail header, adding X-comment: whatever you want to write Seems to be the right approach. (Hush can be considered another header but ...) http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/examples/preferences.testing -- ~\^o^/~~~ ~\^.^/~~~ ~\^*^/~~~ ~\^_^/~~~ ~\^+^/~~~ ~\^:^/~~~ ~\^v^/~~~ +++++ Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cupertino CA USA, GPG-key: A8061F32 .''`. Debian Reference: post-installation user's guide for non-developers : :' : http://qref.sf.net and http://people.debian.org/~osamu `. `' "Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software" --- Social Contract -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]