X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/12cd178d6eb61306cc99e5e07c463c800d406771..2b9b27c395d75a0c06e7eca65746e5567e459dac:/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml diff --git a/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml b/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml index 55504f3e5..b6de039c6 100644 --- a/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml @@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ You have been warned. Note that the files in the /etc/apt/preferences.d directory are parsed in alphanumeric ascending order and need to obey the -following naming convention: The files have no or "pref" -as filename extension and which only contain alphanumeric, hyphen (-), +following naming convention: The files have either no or "pref" +as filename extension and only contain alphanumeric, hyphen (-), underscore (_) and period (.) characters. Otherwise APT will print a notice that it has ignored a file if the file doesn't match a pattern in the Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently @@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ APT also supports pinning by glob() expressions and regular expressions surrounded by /. For example, the following example assigns the priority 500 to all packages from experimental where the name starts with gnome (as a glob()-like -expression or contains the word kde (as a POSIX extended regular +expression) or contains the word kde (as a POSIX extended regular expression surrounded by slashes). @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ Pin-Priority: 500 The rule for those expressions is that they can occur anywhere -where a string can occur. Those, the following pin assigns the +where a string can occur. Thus, the following pin assigns the priority 990 to all packages from a release starting with karmic. @@ -287,6 +287,7 @@ Pin: release n=karmic* Pin-Priority: 990 + If a regular expression occurs in a Package field, the behavior is the same as if this regular expression were replaced with a list of all package names it matches. It is undecided whether @@ -295,7 +296,7 @@ pins first, so later specific pins override it. The pattern "*" in a Package field is not considered a glob() expression in itself. - +