1 /* This file is an index of all APT configuration directives. It should
2 NOT actually be used as a real config file, though it is (except for the
3 last line) a completely valid file. Most of the options have sane default
4 values, unless you have specific needs you should NOT include arbitrary
5 items in a custom configuration.
7 In some instances involving filenames it is possible to set the default
8 directory when the path is evaluated. This means you can use relative
9 paths within the sub scope.
11 The configuration directives are specified in a tree with {} designating
12 a subscope relative to the tag before the {}. You can further specify
13 a subscope using scope notation eg,
14 APT::Architecture "i386";
15 This is prefixed with the current scope. Scope notation must be used
16 if an option is specified on the command line with -o.
20 quiet::NoUpdate "true"; // never update progress information - included in -q=1
22 // Options for APT in general
26 Architectures { "amd64"; "armel"; };
27 Build-Essential "build-essential";
29 NeverAutoRemove { "linux-image.*"; }; // packages that should never
30 // considered for autoRemove
32 // Options for apt-get
35 Host-Architecture "armel";
37 AllowUnauthenticated "false";
38 AutomaticRemove "false";
39 HideAutoRemove "false";
40 Download-Only "false";
43 Force-Yes "false"; // I would never set this.
46 Show-Upgraded "false";
47 Show-Versions "false";
60 Build-Dep-Automatic "true";
61 Show-User-Simulation-Note "true";
69 RecurseDepends "false";
87 Pre-Invoke {"touch /var/lib/apt/pre-update-stamp"; };
88 Post-Invoke {"touch /var/lib/apt/post-update-stamp"; };
93 TrustCDROM "false"; // consider the CDROM always trusted
96 // Some general options
98 Clean-Installed "true";
99 Immediate-Configure "true"; // DO NOT turn this off, see the man page
100 Force-LoopBreak "false"; // DO NOT turn this on, see the man page
101 Cache-Start "20971520";
102 Cache-Grow "1048576";
106 // consider Recommends, Suggests as important dependencies that should
107 // be installed by default
108 Install-Recommends "true";
109 Install-Suggests "false";
111 // consider dependencies of packages in this section manual
112 Never-MarkAuto-Sections {"metapackages"; "universe/metapackages"; };
114 // Write progress messages on this fd (for stuff like base-config)
116 // Keep the list of FDs open (normally apt closes all fds when it
122 // server the provides the changelogs, the code will assume
123 // the changlogs are in the pool/ under a srcpkg_ver directory
124 // with the name "changelog"
125 Server "http://packages.debian.org/changelogs";
128 // control parameters for cron jobs by /etc/cron.daily/apt
131 BackupArchiveInterval "0";
132 // - Backup after n-days if archive contents changed.(0=disable)
135 // - Backup level.(0=disable), 1 is invalid.
137 // APT::Archives::MaxAge "0"; (old, deprecated)
139 // - Set maximum allowed age of a cache package file. If a cache
140 // package file is older it is deleted (0=disable)
142 // APT::Archives::MinAge "2"; (old, deprecated)
144 // - Set minimum age of a package file. If a file is younger it
145 // will not be deleted (0=disable). Usefull to prevent races
146 // and to keep backups of the packages for emergency.
148 // APT::Archives::MaxSize "0"; (old, deprecated)
149 MaxSize "0"; // (new)
150 // - Set maximum size of the cache in MB (0=disable). If the cache
151 // is bigger, cached package files are deleted until the size
152 // requirement is met (the biggest packages will be deleted
155 Update-Package-Lists "0";
156 // - Do "apt-get update" automatically every n-days (0=disable)
158 Download-Upgradeable-Packages "0";
159 // - Do "apt-get upgrade --download-only" every n-days (0=disable)
161 Unattended-Upgrade "0";
162 // - Run the "unattended-upgrade" security upgrade script
163 // every n-days (0=disabled)
164 // Requires the package "unattended-upgrades" and will write
165 // a log in /var/log/unattended-upgrades
167 AutocleanInterval "0";
168 // - Do "apt-get autoclean" every n-days (0=disable)
171 // - Send report mail to root
172 // 0: no report (or null string)
173 // 1: progress report (actually any string)
174 // 2: + command outputs (remove -qq, remove 2>/dev/null, add -d)
179 // Options for the downloading routines
182 Queue-Mode "host"; // host|access
184 Source-Symlinks "true";
185 ForceHash "sha256"; // hashmethod used for expected hash: sha256, sha1 or md5sum
187 PDiffs "true"; // try to get the IndexFile diffs
188 PDiffs::FileLimit "4"; // don't use diffs if we would need more than 4 diffs
189 PDiffs::SizeLimit "50"; // don't use diffs if size of all patches excess
190 // 50% of the size of the original file
192 Check-Valid-Until "true";
193 Max-ValidTime "864000"; // 10 days
194 Max-ValidTime::Debian-Security "604800"; // 7 days, label specific configuration
196 // HTTP method configuration
199 Proxy "http://127.0.0.1:3128";
200 Proxy::http.us.debian.org "DIRECT"; // Specific per-host setting
203 AllowRedirect "true";
205 // Cache Control. Note these do not work with Squid 2.0.2
207 Max-Age "86400"; // 1 Day age on index files
208 No-Store "false"; // Prevent the cache from storing archives
209 Dl-Limit "7"; // 7Kb/sec maximum download rate
210 User-Agent "Debian APT-HTTP/1.3";
215 // HTTPS method configuration: uses the http
217 // - cache-control values
218 // - Dl-Limit, Timout, ... values
219 // if not set explicit for https
221 // see /usr/share/doc/apt/examples/apt-https-method-example.conf.gz
226 SslCert "/etc/apt/some.pem";
227 CaPath "/etc/ssl/certs";
229 AllowRedirect "true";
232 AllowRedirect "true";
234 // Cache Control. Note these do not work with Squid 2.0.2
236 Max-Age "86400"; // 1 Day age on index files
237 No-Store "false"; // Prevent the cache from storing archives
238 Dl-Limit "7"; // 7Kb/sec maximum download rate
240 User-Agent "Debian APT-CURL/1.0";
245 Proxy "ftp://127.0.0.1/";
246 Proxy::http.us.debian.org "DIRECT"; // Specific per-host setting
248 /* Required script to perform proxy login. This example should work
252 "USER $(PROXY_USER)";
253 "PASS $(PROXY_PASS)";
254 "USER $(SITE_USER)@$(SITE):$(SITE_PORT)";
260 /* Passive mode control, proxy, non-proxy and per-host. Pasv mode
261 is preferred if possible */
263 Proxy::Passive "true";
264 Passive::http.us.debian.org "true"; // Specific per-host setting
269 // do auto detection of the cdrom mountpoint
271 // when auto-detecting, only look for cdrom/dvd. when this is false
272 // it will support any removable device as a "cdrom" source
275 // cdrom mountpoint (needs to be defined in fstab if AutoDetect is not used)
278 // You need the trailing slash!
288 Options {"--ignore-time-conflict";} // not very useful on a normal system
297 Order { "uncompressed"; "gz"; "lzma"; "bz2"; };
313 // Location of the state dir
317 status "/var/lib/dpkg/status";
318 extended_states "extended_states";
319 cdroms "cdroms.list";
322 // Location of the cache dir
323 Cache "var/cache/apt/" {
324 Archives "archives/";
325 // backup directory created by /etc/cron.daily/apt
327 srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
328 pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
336 Preferences "preferences";
337 PreferencesParts "preferences.d";
338 SourceList "sources.list";
339 SourceParts "sources.list.d";
340 VendorList "vendors.list";
341 VendorParts "vendors.list.d";
342 Trusted "trusted.gpg";
343 TrustedParts "trusted.gpg.d";
346 // Locations of binaries
348 methods "/usr/lib/apt/methods/";
351 dpkg "/usr/bin/dpkg";
352 dpkg-source "/usr/bin/dpkg-source";
353 dpkg-buildpackage "/usr/bin/dpkg-buildpackage";
354 apt-get "/usr/bin/apt-get";
355 apt-cache "/usr/bin/apt-cache";
358 // Location of the logfile
361 History "history.log";
367 // Media AutoDetect mount path
368 MountPath "/media/apt";
374 // Media AutoDetect mount path
375 MountPath "/media/apt";
379 // Things that effect the APT dselect method
382 Clean "auto"; // always|auto|prompt|never
385 PromptAfterUpdate "no";
391 // let apt aggressivly use dpkg triggers
393 ConfigurePending "true";
395 // Probably don't want to use force-downgrade..
396 Options {"--force-overwrite";"--force-downgrade";}
398 // Auto re-mounting of a readonly /usr
399 Pre-Invoke {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";};
400 Post-Invoke {"mount -o remount,ro /usr";};
402 Chroot-Directory "/";
404 // Prevents daemons from getting cwd as something mountable (default)
407 // Build options for apt-get source --compile
408 Build-Options "-b -uc";
410 // Pre-configure all packages before they are installed using debconf.
411 Pre-Install-Pkgs {"dpkg-preconfigure --apt --priority=low --frontend=dialog";};
413 // Flush the contents of stdin before forking dpkg.
416 // Control the size of the command line passed to dpkg.
420 // controls if apt will apport on the first dpkg error or if it
421 // tries to install as many packages as possible
425 /* Options you can set to see some debugging text They correspond to names
426 of classes in the source code */
429 pkgProblemResolver "false";
430 pkgProblemResolver::ShowScores "false";
431 pkgDepCache::AutoInstall "false"; // what packages apt install to satify dependencies
432 pkgDepCache::Marker "false";
435 pkgAcquire::Worker "false";
436 pkgAcquire::Auth "false";
438 pkgDPkgProgressReporting "false";
439 pkgOrderList "false";
440 pkgPackageManager "false"; // OrderList/Configure debugging
441 pkgAutoRemove "false"; // show information about automatic removes
443 pkgInitialize "false"; // This one will dump the configuration space
445 Acquire::Ftp "false"; // Show ftp command traffic
446 Acquire::Http "false"; // Show http command traffic
447 Acquire::Https "false"; // Show https debug
448 Acquire::gpgv "false"; // Show the gpgv traffic
449 Acquire::cdrom "false"; // Show cdrom debug output
450 aptcdrom "false"; // Show found package files
452 acquire::netrc "false"; // netrc parser
456 pkgCacheGen::Essential "native"; // other modes: all, none, installed
458 /* Whatever you do, do not use this configuration file!! Take out ONLY
459 the portions you need! */
460 This Is Not A Valid Config File