startdit()
dit(bf(Queue-Mode))
Queuing mode; bf(Queue-Mode) can be one of bf(host) or bf(access) which
-determins how APT parallelizesoutgoing connections. bf(host) means that
+determins how APT parallelizes outgoing connections. bf(host) means that
one connection per target host will be opened, bf(access) means that one
connection per URI type will be opened.
+dit(bf(Retries))
+Number of retries to perform. If this is non-zero apt will retry failed
+files the given number of times.
+
dit(bf(http))
HTTP URIs; http::Proxy is the default http proxy to use. It is in the standard
form of em(http://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/). Per host proxies can also
Three settings are provided for cache control with HTTP/1.1 complient proxy
caches. bf(No-Cache) tells the proxy to not used its cached response under
any circumstances, bf(Max-Age) is sent only for index files and tells the
-cache to refresh its object if it is older than the given value. Debian
-updates its index files daily so the default is 1 day. bd(No-Store)
+cache to refresh its object if it is older than the given number of seconds.
+Debian updates its index files daily so the default is 1 day. bf(No-Store)
specifies that the cache should never store this request, it is only
set for archive files. This may be usefull to prevent polluting a proxy cache
with very large .deb files. Note: Squid 2.0.2 does not support any of
bf(/usr/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf) contains a sample configuration file
showing the default values for all possible options.
+mapagesection(FILES)
+/etc/apt/apt.conf
+
manpageseealso()
apt-cache (8),
apt.conf (5)