Ubuntu
aptitude package

  1. Bug #508545
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 508545

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Stephen (kernelpanic.ca) wrote : Re: Aptitude ignores apt_preferences

Thank you Dominik. I thought I had tested /etc/apt/preferences but obviously I had not.

Under Karmic aptitude does respect the policies set in /etc/apt/preferences but not preferences.d/*. The tools apt-cache and apt-get also respect the policies in /etc/apt/preferences.