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

diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.sgml b/doc/apt.conf.5.sgml
index 4c79e4cc09a90b291d68bb67609da956c9d503bf..3d824b4101474aca48c7da89e297541c5b1bf170 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/apt.conf.5.sgml
+++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.sgml
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
  <!-- Man page title -->
  <refnamediv>
     <refname>apt.conf</>
-    <refpurpose>Configuratoin file for APT</>
+    <refpurpose>Configuration file for APT</>
  </refnamediv>
  
  <RefSect1><Title>Description</>
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
      
      <VarListEntry><Term>Ignore-Hold</Term>
      <ListItem><Para>
-     Ignore Held packages; This global options causes the problem resolver to
+     Ignore Held packages; This global option causes the problem resolver to
      ignore held packages in its decision making. 
      </VarListEntry>
 
@@ -126,6 +126,11 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
      information. This sets the size of that cache.
      </VarListEntry>
 
+     <VarListEntry><Term>Build-Essential</Term>
+     <ListItem><Para>
+     Defines which package(s) are considered essential build dependencies.
+     </VarListEntry>
+
      <VarListEntry><Term>Get</Term>
      <ListItem><Para>
      The Get subsection controls the &apt-get; tool, please see its
@@ -155,7 +160,7 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
      <VarListEntry><Term>Queue-Mode</Term>
      <ListItem><Para>
      Queuing mode; <literal/Queue-Mode/ can be one of <literal/host/ or 
-     <literal/access/ which determins how APT parallelizes outgoing 
+     <literal/access/ which determines how  APT parallelizes outgoing 
      connections. <literal/host/ means that one connection per target host 
      will be opened, <literal/access/ means that one connection per URI type 
      will be opened.
@@ -183,7 +188,7 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
      will override all settings.
      <para>
      Three settings are provided for cache control with HTTP/1.1 complient 
-     proxy caches. <literal/No-Cache/ tells the proxy to not used its cached 
+     proxy caches. <literal/No-Cache/ tells the proxy to not use its cached 
      response under any circumstances, <literal/Max-Age/ is sent only for 
      index files and tells the cache to refresh its object if it is older than 
      the given number of seconds. Debian updates its index files daily so the 
@@ -200,13 +205,13 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
      <literal/Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth/ can be a value from 0 to 5 
      indicating how many outstanding requests APT should send. A value of
      zero MUST be specified if the remote host does not properly linger
-     on TCP connections - otherwise data corruption will occure. Hosts which
+     on TCP connections - otherwise data corruption will occur. Hosts which
      require this are in violation of RFC 2068.     
      </VarListEntry>
 
      <VarListEntry><Term>ftp</Term>
      <ListItem><Para>
-     FTP URis; ftp::Proxy is the default proxy server to use. It is in the 
+     FTP URIs; ftp::Proxy is the default proxy server to use. It is in the 
      standard form of <literal>ftp://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/</> and is 
      overriden by the <envar/ftp_proxy/ environment variable. To use a ftp 
      proxy you will have to set the <literal/ftp::ProxyLogin/ script in the 
@@ -259,7 +264,7 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
    The <literal/Dir::State/ section has directories that pertain to local 
    state information. <literal/lists/ is the directory to place downloaded 
    package lists in and <literal/status/ is the name of the dpkg status file.
-   <literal/preferences/ is the name of the APT preferencse file.
+   <literal/preferences/ is the name of the APT preferences file.
    <literal/Dir::State/ contains the default directory to prefix on all sub 
    items if they do not start with <filename>/</> or <filename>./</>. 
    <para>
@@ -292,7 +297,7 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
  <RefSect1><Title>APT in DSelect</>
    <para>   
    When APT is used as a &dselect; method several configuration directives
-   control the default behavoir. These are in the <literal/DSelect/ section.
+   control the default behaviour. These are in the <literal/DSelect/ section.
    
    <VariableList>
      <VarListEntry><Term>Clean</Term>
@@ -334,7 +339,7 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
      <VarListEntry><Term>Options</Term>
      <ListItem><Para>
      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
+     using the list notation and each list item is passed as a single argument
      to &dpkg;.
      </VarListEntry>
      
@@ -400,7 +405,7 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
  
  <RefSect1><Title>See Also</>
    <para>
-   &apt-cache;, &apt-conf;, &apt-preferences;.
+   &apt-cache;, &apt-config;<!-- ? reading apt.conf -->, &apt-preferences;.
  </RefSect1>
 
  &manbugs;