<title>APT Method Interface </title>
<author>Jason Gunthorpe <email>jgg@debian.org</email></author>
-<version>$Id: method.sgml,v 1.6 1998/12/14 04:00:34 jgg Exp $</version>
+<version>$Id: method.sgml,v 1.7 1999/10/18 00:37:36 jgg Exp $</version>
<abstract>
This document describes the interface that APT uses to the archive
<tag>Pipeline<item>The method is capable of pipelining.
<tag>Local<item>The method only returns Filename: feilds.
<tag>Send-Config<item>Send configuration to the method.
+<tag>Needs-Cleanup<item>The process is kept around while the files it returned
+are being used. This is primarily intended for CDROM and File URIs that need
+to unmount filesystems.
<tag>Version<item>Version string for the method
</taglist>
Displays the capabilities of the method. Methods should set the
pipeline bit if their underlying protocol supports pipeling. The
only known method that does support pipelining is http.
-Fields: Version, Single-Instance, Pre-Scan, Pipeline, Send-Config
+Fields: Version, Single-Instance, Pre-Scan, Pipeline, Send-Config,
+Needs-Cleanup
<tag>101 Log<item>
A log message may be printed to the screen if debugging is enabled. This