add by-hash sources.list option and document all of by-hash

[apt.git] / doc / acquire-additional-files.txt

diff --git a/doc/acquire-additional-files.txt b/doc/acquire-additional-files.txt
index c52955619164dea7f7d6beda0f056cb62d39abeb..a7acbbe465a6ef766612ab956d87e3f24fb52500 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/acquire-additional-files.txt
+++ b/doc/acquire-additional-files.txt
@@ -114,6 +114,9 @@ aren't accidentally used by frontends:
   Defaults to the value of Acquire::PDiffs which is true by default.
   Can be overridden per-source by the sources.list option of the same
   name. See the documentation for both of these for details.
+* By-Hash: controls if apt will try to use an URI constructed from
+  a hashsum of the file to download. See the documentation for config
+  option Acquire::By-Hash and sources.list option By-Hash for details.
 * CompressionTypes: The default value is a space separated list of
   compression types supported by apt (see Acquire::CompressionTypes).
   You can set this option to prevent apt from downloading a compression