it more readable. Lists can be created by opening a scope an including a
single word enclosed in quotes followed by a semicolon.
In general the sample configuration file in
-em(/usr/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf) is a good guide for how it should look.
+em(/usr/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf) and
+em(/usr/doc/apt/examples/configure-index)
+is a good guide for how it should look.
All of the APT tools take a -o option which allows an arbitary configuration
directive to be specified on the command line. The syntax is a full option
Ignore Held packages; This global options causes the problem resolver to
ignore held packages in its decision making.
+dit(bf(Clean-Installed))
+Defaults to on. When turned on the autoclean feature will remove any pacakge
+which can no longer be downloaded from the cache. If turned off then
+packages that are locally installed are also excluded from cleaning - but
+note that APT provides no direct means to reinstall them.
+
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
work if the essential packages are not tar, gzip, libc, dpkg, bash or
anything that those packages depend on.
+dit(bf(Cache-Limit))
+APT uses a fixed size memory mapped cache file to store the 'available'
+information. This sets the size of that cache.
+
dit(bf(Get))
The Get subsection controls the bf(apt-get(8)) tool, please see its
documentation for more information about the options here.
Number of retries to perform. If this is non-zero apt will retry failed
files the given number of times.
-dit(bf(Acquire::Source-Symlinks))
+dit(bf(Source-Symlinks))
Use symlinks for source archives. If set to true then source archives will
be symlinked when possible instead of copying. True is the default
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
+standard form of em(ftp://[[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. Please see em(/usr/doc/apt/examples/configure-index) 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.
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)
+It is possible to proxy FTP over HTTP by setting the em(ftp_proxy)
+environment variable to a http url - see the discussion of the http method
+above for syntax. You cannot set this in the configuration file and it is
+not recommended to use FTP over HTTP due to its low efficiency.
+
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.
data in CDROM IDs.
manpagesection(EXAMPLES)
-bf(/usr/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf) contains a sample configuration file
-showing the default values for all possible options.
+bf(/usr/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz) contains a sample configuration
+file showing the default values for all possible options.
manpagesection(FILES)
/etc/apt/apt.conf
projects / apt.git / blobdiff