On 2004-07-09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: > Thanks! Yes, that's essentially what I'm after. > > I don't have an "apt.preferences" file... I'll generate one as you > suggest. I read what docs. I found on the "apt.preferences" file, and > couldn't figure out how it would fix my priority problem with the > CD-ROM for the stable release, since the CD-ROM entries are first in > order in the "sources.list" file, which from what I could tell was > supposed to guarantee their priority. (I already stumbled over the > cache limit problem and fixed that, but the "APT::Default-Release > "stable";" entry, which I also tried, caused a "Bad syntax at end of > apt.conf" file error (I'll go recheck the syntax *again*...). > > Thanks again -- that gives me some new tactics to employ... >
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