* add depth information to the debug output and show what depends

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

diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
index db8dfa7ce1ac4bcbf96b52ff80f0ee2b0874f7b6..841bb8f66c6c4cb4e3d5a1e2b1fbd62b992979e4 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
+++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
@@ -12,10 +12,16 @@
  <refentryinfo>
    &apt-author.jgunthorpe;
    &apt-author.team;
  <refentryinfo>
    &apt-author.jgunthorpe;
    &apt-author.team;

+   <author>
+     <firstname>Daniel</firstname>
+     <surname>Burrows</surname>
+     <contrib>Initial documentation of Debug::*.</contrib>
+     <email>dburrows@debian.org</email>
+   </author>

    &apt-email;
    &apt-product;
    <!-- The last update date -->
    &apt-email;
    &apt-product;
    <!-- The last update date -->

-   <date>29 February 2004</date>
+   <date>10 December 2008</date>

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


@@ -47,8 +53,9 @@
    parent groups.</para> 
 
    <para>Syntactically the configuration language is modeled after what the ISC tools
    parent groups.</para> 
 
    <para>Syntactically the configuration language is modeled after what the ISC tools

-   such as bind and dhcp use.  Lines starting with
-   <literal>//</literal> are treated as comments (ignored).
+   such as bind and dhcp use. Lines starting with
+   <literal>//</literal> are treated as comments (ignored), as well as all text
+   between <literal>/*</literal> and <literal>*/</literal>, just like C/C++ comments.

    Each line is of the form
    <literal>APT::Get::Assume-Yes "true";</literal> The trailing 
    semicolon is required and the quotes are optional. A new scope can be
    Each line is of the form
    <literal>APT::Get::Assume-Yes "true";</literal> The trailing 
    semicolon is required and the quotes are optional. A new scope can be


@@ -101,6 +108,11 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
      compiled for.</para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
      
      compiled for.</para></listitem>
      </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>
+     </varlistentry>
+     

      <varlistentry><term>Ignore-Hold</term>
      <listitem><para>Ignore Held packages; This global option causes the problem resolver to
      ignore held packages in its decision making.</para></listitem>
      <varlistentry><term>Ignore-Hold</term>
      <listitem><para>Ignore Held packages; This global option causes the problem resolver to
      ignore held packages in its decision making.</para></listitem>


@@ -161,6 +173,12 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
    and the URI handlers. 
 
    <variablelist>
    and the URI handlers. 
 
    <variablelist>

+     <varlistentry><term>PDiffs</term>
+        <listitem><para>Try do download deltas called <literal>PDiffs</literal> for
+        Packages or Sources files instead of downloading whole ones. True
+        by default.</para></listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+

      <varlistentry><term>Queue-Mode</term>
      <listitem><para>Queuing mode; <literal>Queue-Mode</literal> can be one of <literal>host</literal> or 
      <literal>access</literal> which determines how  APT parallelizes outgoing 
      <varlistentry><term>Queue-Mode</term>
      <listitem><para>Queuing mode; <literal>Queue-Mode</literal> can be one of <literal>host</literal> or 
      <literal>access</literal> which determines how  APT parallelizes outgoing 


@@ -209,6 +227,29 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
      require this are in violation of RFC 2068.</para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
 
      require this are in violation of RFC 2068.</para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
 

+     <varlistentry><term>https</term>
+        <listitem><para>HTTPS URIs. Cache-control and proxy options are the same as for
+        <literal>http</literal> method.
+        <literal>Pipeline-Depth</literal> option is not supported yet.</para>
+
+        <para><literal>CaInfo</literal> suboption specifies place of file that
+        holds info about trusted certificates.
+        <literal>&lt;host&gt;::CaInfo</literal> is corresponding per-host option.
+        <literal>Verify-Peer</literal> boolean suboption determines whether verify
+        server's host certificate against trusted certificates or not.
+        <literal>&lt;host&gt;::Verify-Peer</literal> is corresponding per-host option.
+        <literal>Verify-Host</literal> boolean suboption determines whether verify
+        server's hostname or not.
+        <literal>&lt;host&gt;::Verify-Host</literal> is corresponding per-host option.
+        <literal>SslCert</literal> determines what certificate to use for client
+        authentication. <literal>&lt;host&gt;::SslCert</literal> is corresponding per-host option.
+        <literal>SslKey</literal> determines what private key to use for client
+        authentication. <literal>&lt;host&gt;::SslKey</literal> is corresponding per-host option.
+        <literal>SslForceVersion</literal> overrides default SSL version to use.
+        Can contain 'TLSv1' or 'SSLv3' string.
+        <literal>&lt;host&gt;::SslForceVersion</literal> is corresponding per-host option.
+        </para></listitem></varlistentry>
+

      <varlistentry><term>ftp</term>
      <listitem><para>FTP URIs; ftp::Proxy is the default proxy server to use. It is in the 
      standard form of <literal>ftp://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/</literal> and is 
      <varlistentry><term>ftp</term>
      <listitem><para>FTP URIs; ftp::Proxy is the default proxy server to use. It is in the 
      standard form of <literal>ftp://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/</literal> and is 


@@ -389,17 +430,375 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>
 
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>
 

- <refsect1><title>Debug options</title>
-   <para>Most of the options in the <literal>debug</literal> section are not interesting to 
-   the normal user, however <literal>Debug::pkgProblemResolver</literal> shows 
-   interesting output about the decisions dist-upgrade makes. 
-   <literal>Debug::NoLocking</literal> disables file locking so APT can do some 
-   operations as non-root and <literal>Debug::pkgDPkgPM</literal> will print out the 
-   command line for each dpkg invokation. <literal>Debug::IdentCdrom</literal> will 
-   disable the inclusion of statfs data in CDROM IDs.
-   <literal>Debug::Acquire::gpgv</literal> Debugging of the gpgv method.
+ <refsect1>
+   <title>Periodic and Archives options</title>
+   <para><literal>APT::Periodic</literal> and <literal>APT::Archives</literal>
+   groups of options configure behavior of apt periodic updates, which is
+   done by <literal>/etc/cron.daily/apt</literal> script. See header of
+   this script for the brief documentation of these options.

    </para>
  </refsect1>
    </para>
  </refsect1>

+
+ <refsect1>
+   <title>Debug options</title>
+   <para>
+     Enabling options in the <literal>Debug::</literal> section will
+     cause debugging information to be sent to the standard error
+     stream of the program utilizing the <literal>apt</literal>
+     libraries, or enable special program modes that are primarily
+     useful for debugging the behavior of <literal>apt</literal>.
+     Most of these options are not interesting to a normal user, but a
+     few may be:
+
+     <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>Debug::pkgProblemResolver</literal> enables output
+          about the decisions made by
+          <literal>dist-upgrade, upgrade, install, remove, purge</literal>.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>Debug::NoLocking</literal> disables all file
+          locking.  This can be used to run some operations (for
+          instance, <literal>apt-get -s install</literal>) as a
+          non-root user.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>Debug::pkgDPkgPM</literal> prints out the actual
+          command line each time that <literal>apt</literal> invokes
+          &dpkg;.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          <literal>Debug::IdentCdrom</literal> disables the inclusion
+          of statfs data in CDROM IDs.  <!-- TODO: provide a
+          motivating example, except I haven't a clue why you'd want
+          to do this. -->
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </itemizedlist>
+   </para>
+
+   <para>
+     A full list of debugging options to apt follows.
+   </para>
+
+   <variablelist>
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::Acquire::cdrom</literal></term>
+
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Print information related to accessing
+          <literal>cdrom://</literal> sources.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::Acquire::ftp</literal></term>
+
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Print information related to downloading packages using
+          FTP.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::Acquire::http</literal></term>
+
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Print information related to downloading packages using
+          HTTP.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::Acquire::https</literal></term>
+
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Print information related to downloading packages using
+          HTTPS.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::Acquire::gpgv</literal></term>
+
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Print information related to verifying cryptographic
+          signatures using <literal>gpg</literal>.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::aptcdrom</literal></term>
+
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Output information about the process of accessing
+          collections of packages stored on CD-ROMs.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::BuildDeps</literal></term>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Describes the process of resolving build-dependencies in
+          &apt-get;.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::Hashes</literal></term>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Output each cryptographic hash that is generated by the
+          <literal>apt</literal> libraries.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::IdentCDROM</literal></term>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Do not include information from <literal>statfs</literal>,
+          namely the number of used and free blocks on the CD-ROM
+          filesystem, when generating an ID for a CD-ROM.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::NoLocking</literal></term>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Disable all file locking.  For instance, this will allow
+          two instances of <quote><literal>apt-get
+          update</literal></quote> to run at the same time.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::pkgAcquire</literal></term>
+
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Log when items are added to or removed from the global
+          download queue.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::pkgAcquire::Auth</literal></term>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Output status messages and errors related to verifying
+          checksums and cryptographic signatures of downloaded files.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::pkgAcquire::Diffs</literal></term>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Output information about downloading and applying package
+          index list diffs, and errors relating to package index list
+          diffs.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::pkgAcquire::RRed</literal></term>
+
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Output information related to patching apt package lists
+          when downloading index diffs instead of full indices.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::pkgAcquire::Worker</literal></term>
+
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Log all interactions with the sub-processes that actually
+          perform downloads.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::pkgAutoRemove</literal></term>
+
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Log events related to the automatically-installed status of
+          packages and to the removal of unused packages.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::pkgDepCache::AutoInstall</literal></term>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Generate debug messages describing which packages are being
+          automatically installed to resolve dependencies.  This
+          corresponds to the initial auto-install pass performed in,
+          e.g., <literal>apt-get install</literal>, and not to the
+          full <literal>apt</literal> dependency resolver; see
+          <literal>Debug::pkgProblemResolver</literal> for that.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::pkgDepCache::Marker</literal></term>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+           Generate debug messages describing which package is marked
+          as keep/install/remove while the ProblemResolver does his work.
+          Each addition or deletion may trigger additional actions;
+          they are shown indented two additional space under the original entry.
+          The format for each line is <literal>MarkKeep</literal>,
+          <literal>MarkDelete</literal> or <literal>MarkInstall</literal> followed by
+          <literal>package-name &lt;a.b.c -&gt; d.e.f | x.y.z&gt; (section)</literal>
+          where <literal>a.b.c</literal> is the current version of the package,
+          <literal>d.e.f</literal> is the version considered for installation and
+          <literal>x.y.z</literal> is a newer version, but not considered for installation
+          (because of a low pin score). The later two can be omitted if there is none or if
+          it is the same version as the installed.
+          <literal>section</literal> is the name of the section the package appears in.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <!-- Question: why doesn't this do anything?  The code says it should. -->
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::pkgInitConfig</literal></term>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Dump the default configuration to standard output on
+          startup.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::pkgDPkgPM</literal></term>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          When invoking &dpkg;, output the precise command line with
+          which it is being invoked, with arguments separated by a
+          single space character.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::pkgDPkgProgressReporting</literal></term>
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Output all the data received from &dpkg; on the status file
+          descriptor and any errors encountered while parsing it.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::pkgOrderList</literal></term>
+
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Generate a trace of the algorithm that decides the order in
+          which <literal>apt</literal> should pass packages to
+          &dpkg;.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::pkgPackageManager</literal></term>
+
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Output status messages tracing the steps performed when
+          invoking &dpkg;.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::pkgPolicy</literal></term>
+
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Output the priority of each package list on startup.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::pkgProblemResolver</literal></term>
+
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Trace the execution of the dependency resolver (this
+          applies only to what happens when a complex dependency
+          problem is encountered).
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::sourceList</literal></term>
+
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Print information about the vendors read from
+          <filename>/etc/apt/vendors.list</filename>.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry>
+       <term><literal>Debug::Vendor</literal></term>
+
+       <listitem>
+        <para>
+          Print information about each vendor.
+        </para>
+       </listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+   </variablelist>
+ </refsect1>

  
  <refsect1><title>Examples</title>
    <para>&configureindex; is a 
  
  <refsect1><title>Examples</title>
    <para>&configureindex; is a