merge with debian-experimental-ma to get the final 0.8.0~pre1

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

diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
index 0cf4bb663d639d17f658b758522736d10ec4e84b..e37456d73d9d37883ed66e83d60825be4b4122fa 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
+++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
@@ -199,9 +199,20 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
      anything that those packages depend on.</para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
 
      anything that those packages depend on.</para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
 

-     <varlistentry><term>Cache-Limit</term>
-     <listitem><para>APT uses a fixed size memory mapped cache file to store the 'available'
-     information. This sets the size of that cache (in bytes).</para></listitem>
+     <varlistentry><term>Cache-Start, Cache-Grow and Cache-Limit</term>
+     <listitem><para>APT uses since version 0.7.26 a resizable memory mapped cache file to store the 'available'
+     information. <literal>Cache-Start</literal> acts as a hint to which size the Cache will grow
+     and is therefore the amount of memory APT will request at startup. The default value is
+     20971520 bytes (~20 MB). Note that these amount of space need to be available for APT
+     otherwise it will likely fail ungracefully, so for memory restricted devices these value should
+     be lowered while on systems with a lot of configured sources this might be increased.
+     <literal>Cache-Grow</literal> defines in byte with the default of 1048576 (~1 MB) how much
+     the Cache size will be increased in the event the space defined by <literal>Cache-Start</literal>
+     is not enough. These value will be applied again and again until either the cache is big
+     enough to store all information or the size of the cache reaches the <literal>Cache-Limit</literal>.
+     The default of <literal>Cache-Limit</literal> is 0 which stands for no limit.
+     If <literal>Cache-Grow</literal> is set to 0 the automatic grow of the cache is disabled.
+     </para></listitem>

      </varlistentry>
 
      <varlistentry><term>Build-Essential</term>
      </varlistentry>
 
      <varlistentry><term>Build-Essential</term>


@@ -436,6 +447,15 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
      really prefer uncompressed files to support the usage of local mirrors.</para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
 
      really prefer uncompressed files to support the usage of local mirrors.</para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
 

+     <varlistentry><term>GzipIndexes</term>
+        <listitem><para>
+        When downloading <literal>gzip</literal> compressed indexes (Packages, Sources, or
+        Translations), keep them gzip compressed locally instead of unpacking
+        them. This saves quite a lot of disk space at the expense of more CPU
+        requirements when building the local package caches. False by default.
+        </para></listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+

      <varlistentry><term>Languages</term>
      <listitem><para>The Languages subsection controls which <filename>Translation</filename> files are downloaded
      and in which order APT tries to display the Description-Translations. APT will try to display the first
      <varlistentry><term>Languages</term>
      <listitem><para>The Languages subsection controls which <filename>Translation</filename> files are downloaded
      and in which order APT tries to display the Description-Translations. APT will try to display the first


@@ -507,6 +527,15 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
      will be looked up in
      <filename>/tmp/staging/var/lib/dpkg/status</filename>.
    </para>
      will be looked up in
      <filename>/tmp/staging/var/lib/dpkg/status</filename>.
    </para>

+
+   <para>
+      The <literal>Ignore-Files-Silently</literal> list can be used to specify
+      which files APT should silently ignore while parsing the files in the
+      fragment directories. Per default a file which end with <literal>.disabled</literal>,
+      <literal>~</literal>, <literal>.bak</literal> or <literal>.dpkg-[a-z]+</literal>
+      is silently ignored. As seen in the last default value these patterns can use regular
+      expression syntax.
+   </para>

  </refsect1>
  
  <refsect1><title>APT in DSelect</title>
  </refsect1>
  
  <refsect1><title>APT in DSelect</title>