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<refnamediv>
<refname>apt.conf</>
- <refpurpose>Configuratoin file for APT</>
+ <refpurpose>Configuration file for APT</>
</refnamediv>
<RefSect1><Title>Description</>
- <para>
+ <para>
<filename/apt.conf/ is the main configuration file for the APT suite of
tools, all tools make use of the configuration file and a common command line
parser to provide a uniform environment. When an APT tool starts up it will
<RefSect1><Title>The APT Group</>
<para>
- This group of options controls general APT behavoir as well as holding the
+ This group of options controls general APT behavior as well as holding the
options for all of the tools.
<VariableList>
<VarListEntry><Term>Ignore-Hold</Term>
<ListItem><Para>
- Ignore Held packages; This global options causes the problem resolver to
+ Ignore Held packages; This global option causes the problem resolver to
ignore held packages in its decision making.
</VarListEntry>
<VarListEntry><Term>Clean-Installed</Term>
<ListItem><Para>
- Defaults to on. When turned on the autoclean feature will remove any pacakge
+ Defaults to on. When turned on the autoclean feature will remove any pacakges
which can no longer be downloaded from the cache. If turned off then
packages that are locally installed are also excluded from cleaning - but
note that APT provides no direct means to reinstall them.
information. This sets the size of that cache.
</VarListEntry>
+ <VarListEntry><Term>Build-Essential</Term>
+ <ListItem><Para>
+ Defines which package(s) are considered essential build dependencies.
+ </VarListEntry>
+
<VarListEntry><Term>Get</Term>
<ListItem><Para>
The Get subsection controls the &apt-get; tool, please see its
<VarListEntry><Term>Queue-Mode</Term>
<ListItem><Para>
Queuing mode; <literal/Queue-Mode/ can be one of <literal/host/ or
- <literal/access/ which determins how APT parallelizes outgoing
+ <literal/access/ which determines how APT parallelizes outgoing
connections. <literal/host/ means that one connection per target host
will be opened, <literal/access/ means that one connection per URI type
will be opened.
will override all settings.
<para>
Three settings are provided for cache control with HTTP/1.1 complient
- proxy caches. <literal/No-Cache/ tells the proxy to not used its cached
+ proxy caches. <literal/No-Cache/ tells the proxy to not use its cached
response under any circumstances, <literal/Max-Age/ is sent only for
index files and tells the cache to refresh its object if it is older than
the given number of seconds. Debian updates its index files daily so the
<literal/Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth/ can be a value from 0 to 5
indicating how many outstanding requests APT should send. A value of
zero MUST be specified if the remote host does not properly linger
- on TCP connections - otherwise data corruption will occure. Hosts which
+ on TCP connections - otherwise data corruption will occur. Hosts which
require this are in violation of RFC 2068.
</VarListEntry>
<VarListEntry><Term>ftp</Term>
<ListItem><Para>
- FTP URis; ftp::Proxy is the default proxy server to use. It is in the
+ FTP URIs; ftp::Proxy is the default proxy server to use. It is in the
standard form of <literal>ftp://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/</> and is
overriden by the <envar/ftp_proxy/ environment variable. To use a ftp
proxy you will have to set the <literal/ftp::ProxyLogin/ script in the
The <literal/Dir::State/ section has directories that pertain to local
state information. <literal/lists/ is the directory to place downloaded
package lists in and <literal/status/ is the name of the dpkg status file.
- <literal/preferences/ is the name of the APT preferencse file.
+ <literal/preferences/ is the name of the APT preferences file.
<literal/Dir::State/ contains the default directory to prefix on all sub
items if they do not start with <filename>/</> or <filename>./</>.
<para>
<RefSect1><Title>APT in DSelect</>
<para>
When APT is used as a &dselect; method several configuration directives
- control the default behavoir. These are in the <literal/DSelect/ section.
+ control the default behaviour. These are in the <literal/DSelect/ section.
<VariableList>
<VarListEntry><Term>Clean</Term>
<ListItem><Para>
- Cache Clean mode; this value may be one of always, auto, prompt and never.
- always will remove all archives after they have been downloaded while auto
- will only remove things that are no longer downloadable (replaced with a
- new version for instance)
+ Cache Clean mode; this value may be one of always, prompt, auto,
+ pre-auto and never. always and prompt will remove all packages from
+ the cache after upgrading, prompt (the default) does so conditionally.
+ auto removes only those packages which are no longer downloadable
+ (replaced with a new version for instance). pre-auto performs this
+ action before downloading new packages.
</VarListEntry>
-
+
<VarListEntry><Term>Options</Term>
<ListItem><Para>
The contents of this variable is passed to &apt-get; as command line
<VarListEntry><Term>Options</Term>
<ListItem><Para>
This is a list of options to pass to dpkg. The options must be specified
- using the list notation and each list item is passed as a single arugment
+ using the list notation and each list item is passed as a single argument
to &dpkg;.
</VarListEntry>
<RefSect1><Title>See Also</>
<para>
- &apt-cache; &apt-conf;
+ &apt-cache;, &apt-config;<!-- ? reading apt.conf -->, &apt-preferences;.
</RefSect1>
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