Re: [Synaptic-devel] [BUG] Commented out "empty" preferences file triggers bug ?

[Panu Matilainen]

On Sun, 4 May 2003, Dag Wieers wrote:

> Ok, I've seem to have send this mail with a faulty subject (I copied a 
> former mail and forgot to change the subject). So here is it again. Sorry.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've found another problem after I had some experiments with pinning. 
> Although I don't have any active pins set (everything is commented out) 
> synaptic gives the following error on start-up and after that doesn't show 
> any packages:
> 
>       Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header
>       could not open package priority file /etc/apt/rpmpriorities
> 
> My /etc/apt/preferences looked like this:
> 
>       #Explanation: Prioritize Red Hat updates
>       #Package: *
>       #Pin: release c=updates
>       #Pin-Priority: 1002

Based on a quick look synaptic just doesn't have code to deal with 
comments in preferences file. I'll have a look this evening if I have 
time..

        - Panu -