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-rw-r--r--apt-pkg/policy.cc9
-rw-r--r--debian/changelog2
-rw-r--r--doc/apt_preferences.5.xml7
3 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/apt-pkg/policy.cc b/apt-pkg/policy.cc
index d8b8825c2..35a50425b 100644
--- a/apt-pkg/policy.cc
+++ b/apt-pkg/policy.cc
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
#include <apti18n.h>
#include <iostream>
+#include <sstream>
/*}}}*/
using namespace std;
@@ -300,7 +301,13 @@ bool ReadPinFile(pkgPolicy &Plcy,string File)
continue;
}
- Plcy.CreatePin(Type,Name,string(Word,End),priority);
+ istringstream s(Name);
+ string pkg;
+ while(!s.eof())
+ {
+ s >> pkg;
+ Plcy.CreatePin(Type, pkg, string(Word,End),priority);
+ };
}
Plcy.InitDefaults();
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8b566e5c4..bcdeac310 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ apt (0.6.47) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* [ABI] apt-pkg/acquire.{cc,h}:
- deal better with duplicated sources.list entries (avoid
double queuing of URLs) - this fixes hangs in bzip/gzip
+ * apt-pkg/policy.cc:
+ - allow multiple packages (thanks to David Foerster)
-- Michael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com> Mon, 18 Dec 2006 19:39:05 +0100
diff --git a/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml b/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml
index 3e50bef8c..175339f5a 100644
--- a/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml
+++ b/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml
@@ -143,10 +143,11 @@ separated by blank lines. Records can have one of two forms, a specific form
and a general form.
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
-<simpara>The specific form assigns a priority (a "Pin-Priority") to a
-specified package and specified version or version range. For example,
+<simpara>The specific form assigns a priority (a "Pin-Priority") to one or more
+specified packages and specified version or version range. For example,
the following record assigns a high priority to all versions of
-the <filename>perl</filename> package whose version number begins with "<literal>5.8</literal>".</simpara>
+the <filename>perl</filename> package whose version number begins with "<literal>5.8</literal>".
+Multiple packages can be separated by spaces.</simpara>
<programlisting>
Package: perl