Fixed dumpavail some more

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

diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.yo b/doc/apt.conf.5.yo
index 1ee7a1d93eaac2d54484730a43f30bd0335f09bb..145be229436ebff422014d7e84e8e323e9464d00 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/apt.conf.5.yo
+++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.yo
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ dit(bf(Ignore-Hold))
 Ignore Held packages; This global options causes the problem resolver to
 ignore held packages in its decision making. 
 
-dit(bf(Immedate-Configure))
+dit(bf(Immediate-Configure))
 Disable Immedate Configuration; This dangerous option disables some
 of APT's ordering code to cause it to make fewer dpkg calls. Doing
 so may be necessary on some extremely slow single user systems but 
@@ -105,6 +105,23 @@ remote server is not RFC conforming or buggy (such as Squid 2.0.2)
 Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth can be a value from 0 to 5 indicating how many
 outstanding requests APT should send.
 
+dit(bf(ftp))
+FTP URis; ftp::Proxy is the default proxy server to use. It is in the 
+standard form of em(http://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/) and is overriden
+by the ftp_proxy environment variable. To use a ftp proxy you will have to
+set the ftp::ProxyLogin script in the configuration file. This entry 
+specifies the commands to send to tell the proxy server what to connect
+to. Please see em(/usr/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf) for an example of how 
+to do this. The subsitution variables available are $(PROXY_USER),
+$(PROXY_PASS), $(SITE_USER), $(SITE_PASS), $(SITE), and $(SITE_PORT). 
+Each is taken from it's respective URI component.
+
+Several settings are provided to control passive mode. Generally it is safe
+to leave passive mode on, it works in nearly every environment. However some
+situations require that passive mode be disabled and port mode ftp used
+instead. This can be done globally, for connections that go through a proxy
+or for a specific host (See the sample config file for examples)
+
 dit(bf(cdrom))
 CDROM URIs; the only setting for CDROM URIs is the mount point, cdrom::Mount
 which must be the mount point for the CDROM drive as specified in /etc/fstab.
@@ -155,12 +172,33 @@ If true the [U]pdate operation in dselect will always prompt to continue.
 The default is to prompt only on error.
 enddit()
 
+manpagesection(How APT calls DPkg)
+Several configuration directives control how APT invokes dpkg. These are in 
+the bf(DPkg) section.
+
+startdit()
+dit(bf(Options))
+This is a list of options to pass to dpkg. The options must be specified
+using the list notation and each list item is passed as a single arugment
+to dpkg.
+
+dit(bf(Pre-Invoke), bf(Post-Invoke))
+This is a list of shell commands to run before/after invoking dpkg. Like 
+bf(Options) this must be specified in list notation. The commands
+are invoked in order using /bin/sh, should any fail APT will abort.
+
+dit(bf(Run-Directory))
+APT chdirs to this directory before invoking dpkg, the default is /.
+
+enddit()
+
 manpagesection(Debug Options)
 Most of the options in the bf(debug) section are not interesting to the
 normal user, however bf(Debug::pkgProblemResolver) shows interesting
 output about the decisions dist-upgrade makes. bf(Debug::NoLocking)
 disables file locking so apt can do some operations as non-root and
-bf(Debug::pkgDPkgPM) will print out the command line for each dpkg invokation.
+bf(Debug::pkgDPkgPM) will print out the command line for each dpkg 
+invokation.
 
 manpagesection(EXAMPLES)
 bf(/usr/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf) contains a sample configuration file