<!ENTITY % aptverbatiment SYSTEM "apt-verbatim.ent">
%aptverbatiment;
+<!ENTITY % aptvendor SYSTEM "apt-vendor.ent">
+%aptvendor;
]>
<refentry>
</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',
<para><literal>Acquire::http::User-Agent</literal> can be used to set a different
User-Agent for the http download method as some proxies allow access for clients
only if the client uses a known identifier.</para>
+
+ <para><literal>Acquire::http::Proxy-Auto-Detect</literal> can be used to
+ specify an external command to discover the http proxy to use. Apt expects
+ the command to output the proxy on stdout in the style
+ <literal>http://proxy:port/</literal>. This will override the
+ generic <literal>Acquire::http::Proxy</literal> but not any specific
+ host proxy configuration set via
+ <literal>Acquire::http::Proxy::$HOST</literal>.
+
+ See the &squid-deb-proxy-client; package for an example implementation that
+ uses avahi. This option takes precedence over the legacy option name
+ <literal>ProxyAutoDetect</literal>.
+ </para>
+
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<literal>options</literal> this must be specified in list notation. The commands
are invoked in order using <filename>/bin/sh</filename>; should any fail APT
will abort. APT will pass the filenames of all .deb files it is going to
- install to the commands, one per line on standard input.</para>
+ install to the commands, one per line on the requested file descriptor, defaulting
+ to standard input.</para>
<para>Version 2 of this protocol dumps more information, including the
protocol version, the APT configuration space and the packages, files
<literal>DPkg::Tools::options::<replaceable>cmd</replaceable>::Version</literal>
accordingly, the default being version 1. If APT isn't supporting the requested
version it will send the information in the highest version it has support for instead.
- </para></listitem>
+ </para>
+
+ <para>The file descriptor to be used to send the information can be requested with
+ <literal>DPkg::Tools::options::<replaceable>cmd</replaceable>::InfoFD</literal>
+ which defaults to <literal>0</literal> for standard input and is available since
+ version 0.9.11. Support for the option can be detected by looking for the environment
+ variable <envar>APT_HOOK_INFO_FD</envar> which contains the number of the used
+ file descriptor as a confirmation.</para>
+ </listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>Run-Directory</option></term>