report progress for triggered actions

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

diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
index 6aa0c96290749aefbd8f664aae006ecff07c19e9..a248b2cfddd8fba87320f49cc983d02554a294fd 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
+++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
    &apt-email;
    &apt-product;
    <!-- The last update date -->
    &apt-email;
    &apt-product;
    <!-- The last update date -->

-   <date>2016-05-27T00:00:00Z</date>
+   <date>2016-07-07T00:00:00Z</date>

  </refentryinfo>
  
  <refmeta>
  </refentryinfo>
  
  <refmeta>


@@ -444,15 +444,20 @@ APT::Compressor::rev {
      only if the client uses a known identifier.</para>
 
      <para><literal>Acquire::http::Proxy-Auto-Detect</literal> can be used to
      only if the client uses a known identifier.</para>
 
      <para><literal>Acquire::http::Proxy-Auto-Detect</literal> can be used to

-     specify an external command to discover the http proxy to use. Apt expects
-     the command to output the proxy on stdout in the style
-     <literal>http://proxy:port/</literal>. This will override the
-     generic <literal>Acquire::http::Proxy</literal> but not any specific
-     host proxy configuration set via 
-     <literal>Acquire::http::Proxy::$HOST</literal>.
+     specify an external command to discover the http proxy to use. The first
+     and only parameter is an URI denoting the host to be contacted to allow
+     for host-specific configuration. APT expects the command to output the
+     proxy on stdout as a single line in the style <literal>http://proxy:port/</literal>
+     or the word <literal>DIRECT</literal> if no proxy should be used. No output
+     indicates that the generic proxy settings should be used.
+
+     Note that auto-detection will not be used for a host if a host-specific proxy
+     configuration is already set via <literal>Acquire::http::Proxy::<replaceable>HOST</replaceable></literal>.

 
      See the &squid-deb-proxy-client; package for an example implementation that
 
      See the &squid-deb-proxy-client; package for an example implementation that

-     uses avahi. This option takes precedence over the legacy option name 
+     uses avahi.
+
+     This option takes precedence over the legacy option name

      <literal>ProxyAutoDetect</literal>.
      </para>
 
      <literal>ProxyAutoDetect</literal>.
      </para>
 


@@ -645,27 +650,32 @@ APT::Compressor::rev {
 
      <varlistentry><term><option>AllowInsecureRepositories</option></term>
         <listitem><para>
 
      <varlistentry><term><option>AllowInsecureRepositories</option></term>
         <listitem><para>

-           Allow the update operation to load data files from
-           a repository without a trusted signature. If enabled this
-           option no data files will be loaded and the update
-           operation fails with a error for this source. The default
-           is false for backward compatibility. This will be changed
-           in the future.
+          Allow update operations to load data files from
+          repositories without sufficient security information.
+          The default value is "<literal>false</literal>".
+          Concept, implications as well as alternatives are detailed in &apt-secure;.
+        </para></listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry><term><option>AllowWeakRepositories</option></term>
+        <listitem><para>
+          Allow update operations to load data files from
+          repositories which provide security information, but these
+          are deemed no longer cryptographically strong enough.
+          The default value is "<literal>false</literal>".
+          Concept, implications as well as alternatives are detailed in &apt-secure;.

         </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
 
      <varlistentry><term><option>AllowDowngradeToInsecureRepositories</option></term>
         <listitem><para>
         </para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
 
      <varlistentry><term><option>AllowDowngradeToInsecureRepositories</option></term>
         <listitem><para>

-           Allow that a repository that was previously gpg signed to become
-           unsigned durign a update operation. When there is no valid signature
-           of a previously trusted repository apt will refuse the update. This
-           option can be used to override this protection. You almost certainly
-           never want to enable this. The default is false.
-
-           Note that apt will still consider packages from this source
-           untrusted and warn about them if you try to install
-           them.
-         </para></listitem>
+          Allow that a repository that was previously gpg signed to become
+          unsigned during an update operation. When there is no valid signature
+          for a previously trusted repository apt will refuse the update. This
+          option can be used to override this protection. You almost certainly
+          never want to enable this. The default is <literal>false</literal>.
+          Concept, implications as well as alternatives are detailed in &apt-secure;.
+        </para></listitem>

      </varlistentry>
 
      <varlistentry><term><option>Changelogs::URI</option> scope</term>
      </varlistentry>
 
      <varlistentry><term><option>Changelogs::URI</option> scope</term>