-// $Id: configure-index,v 1.10 2004/07/17 19:37:16 mdz Exp $
/* This file is an index of all APT configuration directives. It should
NOT actually be used as a real config file, though it is (except for the
last line) a completely valid file. Most of the options have sane default
- values, unless you have specific needs you should NOT include arbitary
+ values, unless you have specific needs you should NOT include arbitrary
items in a custom configuration.
In some instances involving filenames it is possible to set the default
{
Architecture "i386";
Build-Essential "build-essential";
-
+
+ NeverAutoRemove { "linux-image.*"; }; // packages that should never
+ // considered for autoRemove
+
// Options for apt-get
Get
{
Arch-Only "false";
+ AllowUnauthenticated "false";
+ AutomaticRemove "false";
+ HideAutoRemove "false";
Download-Only "false";
Simulate "false";
Assume-Yes "false";
Only-Source "";
Diff-Only "false";
Tar-Only "false";
+ Build-Dep-Automatic "true";
};
Cache
NoAct "false";
};
+ Update
+ {
+ Pre-Invoke {"touch /var/lib/apt/pre-update-stamp"; };
+ Post-Invoke {"touch /var/lib/apt/post-update-stamp"; };
+ };
+
Authentication
{
TrustCDROM "false"; // consider the CDROM always trusted
Cache-Limit "4194304";
Default-Release "";
+ // consider Recommends, Suggests as important dependencies that should
+ // be installed by default
+ Install-Recommends "true";
+ Install-Suggests "false";
+
+ // consider dependencies of packages in this section manual
+ Never-MarkAuto-Sections {"metapackages"; "universe/metapackages"; };
// Write progress messages on this fd (for stuff like base-config)
Status-Fd "-1";
// Keep the list of FDs open (normally apt closes all fds when it
// does a ExecFork)
Keep-Fds {};
+
+ // control parameters for cron jobs by /etc/cron.daily/apt
+ Periodic
+ {
+ BackupArchiveInterval "0";
+ // - Backup after n-days if archive contents changed.(0=disable)
+
+ BackupLevel "3";
+ // - Backup level.(0=disable), 1 is invalid.
+
+ // APT::Archives::MaxAge "0"; (old, deprecated)
+ MaxAge "0"; // (new)
+ // - Set maximum allowed age of a cache package file. If a cache
+ // package file is older it is deleted (0=disable)
+
+ // APT::Archives::MinAge "2"; (old, deprecated)
+ MinAge "2"; // (new)
+ // - Set minimum age of a package file. If a file is younger it
+ // will not be deleted (0=disable). Usefull to prevent races
+ // and to keep backups of the packages for emergency.
+
+ // APT::Archives::MaxSize "0"; (old, deprecated)
+ MaxSize "0"; // (new)
+ // - Set maximum size of the cache in MB (0=disable). If the cache
+ // is bigger, cached package files are deleted until the size
+ // requirement is met (the biggest packages will be deleted
+ // first).
+
+ Update-Package-Lists "0";
+ // - Do "apt-get update" automatically every n-days (0=disable)
+ //
+ Download-Upgradeable-Packages "0";
+ // - Do "apt-get upgrade --download-only" every n-days (0=disable)
+ //
+ Unattended-Upgrade "0";
+ // - Run the "unattended-upgrade" security upgrade script
+ // every n-days (0=disabled)
+ // Requires the package "unattended-upgrades" and will write
+ // a log in /var/log/unattended-upgrades
+ //
+ AutocleanInterval "0";
+ // - Do "apt-get autoclean" every n-days (0=disable)
+
+ Verbose "0";
+ // - Send report mail to root
+ // 0: no report (or null string)
+ // 1: progress report (actually any string)
+ // 2: + command outputs (remove -qq, remove 2>/dev/null, add -d)
+ // 3: + trace on
+ };
};
// Options for the downloading routines
Queue-Mode "host"; // host|access
Retries "0";
Source-Symlinks "true";
+
+ PDiffs "true"; // try to get the IndexFile diffs
// HTTP method configuration
http
Dl-Limit "7"; // 7Kb/sec maximum download rate
};
+ // HTTPS method configuration:
+ // - uses the http proxy config
+ // - uses the http cache-control values
+ // - uses the http Dl-Limit values
+ https
+ {
+ Verify-Peer "false";
+ SslCert "/etc/apt/some.pem";
+ CaPath "/etc/ssl/certs";
+ Verify-Host" "2";
+ };
+
ftp
{
Proxy "ftp://127.0.0.1/";
Timeout "120";
/* Passive mode control, proxy, non-proxy and per-host. Pasv mode
- is prefered if possible */
+ is preferred if possible */
Passive "true";
Proxy::Passive "true";
Passive::http.us.debian.org "true"; // Specific per-host setting
gpgv
{
- Options {"--ignore-time-conflict";} // not very usefull on a normal system
+ Options {"--ignore-time-conflict";} // not very useful on a normal system
};
};
// Location of the cache dir
Cache "var/cache/apt/" {
Archives "archives/";
+ // backup directory created by /etc/cron.daily/apt
+ Backup "backup/";
srcpkgcache "srcpkgcache.bin";
pkgcache "pkgcache.bin";
};
apt-get "/usr/bin/apt-get";
apt-cache "/usr/bin/apt-cache";
};
+
+ // Location of the logfile
+ Log "var/log/apt" {
+ Terminal "term.log";
+ };
};
// Things that effect the APT dselect method
// Control the size of the command line passed to dpkg.
MaxBytes 1024;
MaxArgs 350;
+
+ // controls if apt will apport on the first dpkg error or if it
+ // tries to install as many packages as possible
+ StopOnError "true";
}
/* Options you can set to see some debugging text They correspond to names
pkgDPkgPM "false";
pkgDPkgProgressReporting "false";
pkgOrderList "false";
-
+ pkgAutoRemove "false"; // show information about automatic removes
+ BuildDeps "false";
pkgInitialize "false"; // This one will dump the configuration space
NoLocking "false";
Acquire::Ftp "false"; // Show ftp command traffic
Acquire::Http "false"; // Show http command traffic
+ Acquire::Https "false"; // Show https debug
Acquire::gpgv "false"; // Show the gpgv traffic
aptcdrom "false"; // Show found package files
IdentCdrom "false";
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