On Sun, 2003-05-04 at 03:47, 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
> #
> #Explanation: Prioritize Red Hat packages
> #Package: *
> #Pin: release c=os
> #Pin-Priority: 1001
> #
> #Explanation: Prioritize FreshRPMS packages
> #Package: *
> #Pin: vendor "Freshrpms.net"
> #Pin-Priority: +550
> #
> #Explanation: Prioritize Dag Wieers packages
> #Package: *
> #Pin: packager "Dag Wieers <address@hidden>"
> #Pin-Priority: +500
>
> Apt however doesn't have a problem with this preferences file.
Hmm.. actually apt does have a problem with it and the error you see on
synaptic startup is comping from libapt, not synaptic itself:
address@hidden root]# apt-cache policy
E: Invalid record in the preferences file, no Package header
If you have any contents in the file, even just comments, you need to
have one "Package: <something>" line in the preferences file, otherwise
apt + synaptic considers the file invalid. A bit odd, yes...