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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 c13ad486739d3842375cd2496fc12c502bcebe5a..39e2c8e6b43b53e05834e311898ea81f5eecc486 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
+++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
@@ -150,8 +150,9 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
      </varlistentry>
      
      <varlistentry><term>Default-Release</term>
-        <listitem><para>Default release to install packages from if more than one
-        version available. Contains release name, codename or release version. Examples: 'stable', 'testing', 'unstable', 'lenny', 'squeeze', '4.0', '5.0*'. See also &apt-preferences;.</para></listitem>
+     <listitem><para>Default release to install packages from if more than one
+     version available. Contains release name, codename or release version. Examples: 'stable', 'testing',
+     'unstable', '&stable-codename;', '&testing-codename;', '4.0', '5.0*'. See also &apt-preferences;.</para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
 
      <varlistentry><term>Ignore-Hold</term>
@@ -229,6 +230,30 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
    and the URI handlers. 
 
    <variablelist>
+     <varlistentry><term>Check-Valid-Until</term>
+        <listitem><para>Security related option defaulting to true as an
+        expiring validation for a Release file prevents longtime replay attacks
+        and can e.g. also help users to identify no longer updated mirrors -
+        but the feature depends on the correctness of the time on the user system.
+        Archive maintainers are encouraged to create Release files with the
+        <literal>Valid-Until</literal> header, but if they don't or a stricter value
+        is volitional the following <literal>Max-ValidTime</literal> option can be used.
+        </para></listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry><term>Max-ValidTime</term>
+        <listitem><para>Seconds the Release file should be considered valid after
+        it was created. The default is "for ever" (0) if the Release file of the
+        archive doesn't include a <literal>Valid-Until</literal> header.
+        If it does then this date is the default. The date from the Release file or
+        the date specified by the creation time of the Release file
+        (<literal>Date</literal> header) plus the seconds specified with this
+        options are used to check if the validation of a file has expired by using
+        the earlier date of the two. Archive specific settings can be made by
+        appending the label of the archive to the option name.
+        </para></listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
      <varlistentry><term>PDiffs</term>
         <listitem><para>Try to download deltas called <literal>PDiffs</literal> for
         Packages or Sources files instead of downloading whole ones. True
@@ -482,6 +507,15 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
      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>