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

diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
index 62dffadc4d271d1996443c97041c21843a217c5b..18896066b271c3480b67bc128b3b3c020ef2c228 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
+++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
    &apt-email;
    &apt-product;
    <!-- The last update date -->
-   <date>2012-06-09T00:00:00Z</date>
+   <date>2015-12-14T00:00:00Z</date>
  </refentryinfo>
  
  <refmeta>
@@ -54,6 +54,8 @@
         configuration list - in which case it will be silently ignored.</para></listitem>
       <listitem><para>the main configuration file specified by
         <literal>Dir::Etc::main</literal></para></listitem>
+      <listitem><para>all options set in the binary specific configuration
+           subtree are moved into the root of the tree.</para></listitem>
       <listitem><para>the command line options are applied to override the
         configuration directives or to load even more configuration files.</para></listitem>
    </orderedlist>
@@ -347,6 +349,16 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
         </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
 
+     <varlistentry><term><option>By-Hash</option></term>
+        <listitem><para>Try to download indexes via an URI constructed from a
+        hashsum of the expected file rather than downloaded via a well-known
+        stable filename. True by default, but automatically disabled if the
+        source indicates no support for it. Usage can be forced with the special
+        value "force". Preferably, this can be set for specific &sources-list; entries
+        or index files by using the <option>By-Hash</option> option there.
+        </para></listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
      <varlistentry><term><option>Queue-Mode</option></term>
      <listitem><para>Queuing mode; <literal>Queue-Mode</literal> can be one of <literal>host</literal> or 
      <literal>access</literal> which determines how  APT parallelizes outgoing 
@@ -645,7 +657,7 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
          or <literal>Acquire::Changelogs::URI::Override::Origin::<replaceable>ORIGIN</replaceable></literal>.
 
          The value should be a normal URI to a text file, expect that package specific data is
-         replaced with the placeholder <literal>CHANGEPATH</literal>. The
+         replaced with the placeholder <literal>@CHANGEPATH@</literal>. The
          value for it is: 1. if the package is from a component (e.g. <literal>main</literal>)
          this is the first part otherwise it is omitted, 2. the first letter of source package name,
          expect if the source package name starts with '<literal>lib</literal>' in which case it will
@@ -663,6 +675,24 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>
 
+ <refsect1><title>Binary specific configuration</title>
+    <para>Especially with the introduction of the <command>apt</command> binary
+       it can be useful to set certain options only for a specific binary as
+       even options which look like they would effect only a certain binary like
+       <option>APT::Get::Show-Versions</option> effect
+       <command>apt-get</command> as well as <command>apt</command>.
+    </para>
+    <para>Setting an option for a specific binary only can be achieved by
+       setting the option inside the
+       <option>Binary::<replaceable>specific-binary</replaceable></option>
+       scope. Setting the option <option>APT::Get::Show-Versions</option> for
+       the <command>apt</command> only can e.g. by done by setting
+       <option>Binary::apt::APT::Get::Show-Versions</option> instead.</para>
+    <para>Note that as seen in the DESCRIPTION section further above you can't
+       set binary-specific options on the commandline itself nor in
+       configuration files loaded via the commandline.</para>
+ </refsect1>
+
  <refsect1><title>Directories</title>
 
    <para>The <literal>Dir::State</literal> section has directories that pertain to local