Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/debian/sid' into debian/experimental

[apt.git] / doc / apt.conf.5.xml

diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
index 428c0d2db59c33172a8b25d185bb30329a0c176c..21878e2626d7f0eb354585e30a70cb1ef04f0bbe 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
+++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 <!ENTITY % aptverbatiment SYSTEM "apt-verbatim.ent">
 %aptverbatiment;
 
+<!ENTITY % aptvendor SYSTEM "apt-vendor.ent">
+%aptvendor;
 ]>
 
 <refentry>
@@ -175,6 +177,15 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
      </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
 
+     <varlistentry><term><option>Build-Profiles</option></term>
+     <listitem><para>
+     List of all build profiles enabled for build-dependency resolution,
+     without the "<literal>profile.</literal>" namespace prefix.
+     By default this list is empty. The <envar>DEB_BUILD_PROFILES</envar>
+     as used by &dpkg-buildpackage; overrides the list notation.
+     </para></listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
      <varlistentry><term><option>Default-Release</option></term>
      <listitem><para>Default release to install packages from if more than one
      version is available. Contains release name, codename or release version. Examples: 'stable', 'testing',
@@ -379,9 +390,9 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
      <para>The setting <literal>Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth</literal> can be used to
      enable HTTP pipelining (RFC 2616 section 8.1.2.2) which can be beneficial e.g. on
      high-latency connections. It specifies how many requests are sent in a pipeline.
-     Previous APT versions had a default of 10 for this setting, but the default value
-     is now 0 (= disabled) to avoid problems with the ever-growing amount of webservers
-     and proxies which choose to not conform to the HTTP/1.1 specification.</para>
+     APT tries to detect and workaround misbehaving webservers and proxies at runtime, but
+     if you know that yours does not conform to the HTTP/1.1 specification pipelining can
+     be disabled by setting the value to 0. It is enabled by default with the value 10.</para>
 
      <para><literal>Acquire::http::AllowRedirect</literal> controls whether APT will follow
      redirects, which is enabled by default.</para>
@@ -1173,6 +1184,18 @@ DPkg::TriggersPending "true";</literallayout></para>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>
 
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><option>Debug::RunScripts</option></term>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Display the external commands that are called by apt hooks.
+          This includes e.g. the config options
+          <literal>DPkg::{Pre,Post}-Invoke</literal> or
+          <literal>APT::Update::{Pre,Post}-Invoke</literal>.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
 <!-- 2009/07/11 Currently used nowhere. The corresponding code
 is commented.
      <varlistentry>