X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/010364b7b52af9f6f4d8cbb6391a721260b6ffb5..d269b88d95686b77a170af203d0f4a7e44d28fc8:/doc/apt.conf.5.xml?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index f5e1f966d..bfc43ba29 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ %aptverbatiment; + +%aptvendor; ]> @@ -396,6 +398,20 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; Acquire::http::User-Agent can be used to set a different User-Agent for the http download method as some proxies allow access for clients only if the client uses a known identifier. + + Acquire::http::Proxy-Auto-Detect 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 + http://proxy:port/. This will override the + generic Acquire::http::Proxy but not any specific + host proxy configuration set via + Acquire::http::Proxy::$HOST. + + See the &squid-deb-proxy-client; package for an example implementation that + uses avahi. This option takes precedence over the legacy option name + ProxyAutoDetect. + + @@ -688,7 +704,8 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; options this must be specified in list notation. The commands are invoked in order using /bin/sh; should any fail APT will abort. APT will pass the filenames of all .deb files it is going to - install to the commands, one per line on standard input. + install to the commands, one per line on the requested file descriptor, defaulting + to standard input. Version 2 of this protocol dumps more information, including the protocol version, the APT configuration space and the packages, files @@ -700,7 +717,15 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; DPkg::Tools::options::cmd::Version accordingly, the default being version 1. If APT isn't supporting the requested version it will send the information in the highest version it has support for instead. - + + + The file descriptor to be used to send the information can be requested with + DPkg::Tools::options::cmd::InfoFD + which defaults to 0 for standard input and is available since + version 0.9.11. Support for the option can be detected by looking for the environment + variable APT_HOOK_INFO_FD which contains the number of the used + file descriptor as a confirmation. +