X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/1afd369d00f2f9272462ffc6c6e24f293a81459e..df7c9fd2224c1de4a155796e292fb919f559a674:/doc/apt.conf.5.xml diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index 42119baa5..103d0622c 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -1,13 +1,9 @@ -%aptent; - - -%aptverbatiment; - + %aptent; + %aptverbatiment; + %aptvendor; ]> @@ -175,6 +171,15 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; + + + List of all build profiles enabled for build-dependency resolution, + without the "profile." namespace prefix. + By default this list is empty. The DEB_BUILD_PROFILES + as used by &dpkg-buildpackage; overrides the list notation. + + + Default release to install packages from if more than one version is available. Contains release name, codename or release version. Examples: 'stable', 'testing', @@ -296,6 +301,8 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; Valid-Until header, but if they don't or a stricter value is desired the Max-ValidTime option below can be used. + The option of &sources-list; entries should be + preferred to disable the check selectively instead of using this global override. @@ -307,7 +314,8 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; the earlier date of the two is used as the expiration date. The default value is 0 which stands for "valid forever". Archive specific settings can be made by appending the label of the archive - to the option name. + to the option name. Preferably, the same can be achieved for specific + &sources-list; entries by using the option there. @@ -319,7 +327,8 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; frequently updated archive with a Valid-Until header instead of completely disabling the expiration date checking. Archive specific settings can and should be used by appending the label of - the archive to the option name. + the archive to the option name. Preferably, the same can be achieved for specific + &sources-list; entries by using the option there. @@ -379,9 +388,9 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; The setting Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth can be used to enable HTTP pipelining (RFC 2616 section 8.1.2.2) which can be beneficial e.g. on high-latency connections. It specifies how many requests are sent in a pipeline. - Previous APT versions had a default of 10 for this setting, but the default value - is now 0 (= disabled) to avoid problems with the ever-growing amount of webservers - and proxies which choose to not conform to the HTTP/1.1 specification. + APT tries to detect and workaround misbehaving webservers and proxies at runtime, but + if you know that yours does not conform to the HTTP/1.1 specification pipelining can + be disabled by setting the value to 0. It is enabled by default with the value 10. Acquire::http::AllowRedirect controls whether APT will follow redirects, which is enabled by default. @@ -396,6 +405,20 @@ 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. + + @@ -567,6 +590,65 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; + + + The maximum file size of Release/Release.gpg/InRelease files. + The default is 10MB. + + + + + + Allow the update operation to load data files from + a repository without a trusted signature. If enabled this + option no data files will be loaded and the update + operation fails with a error for this source. The default + is false for backward compatibility. This will be changed + in the future. + + + + + + Allow that a repository that was previously gpg signed to become + unsigned durign a update operation. When there is no valid signature + of a perviously trusted repository apt will refuse the update. This + option can be used to override this protection. You almost certainly + never want to enable this. The default is false. + + Note that apt will still consider packages from this source + untrusted and warn about them if you try to install + them. + + + + scope + + Acquiring changelogs can only be done if an URI is known from where to get them. + Preferable the Release file indicates this in a 'Changelogs' field. If this isn't + available the Label/Origin field of the Release file is used to check if a + Acquire::Changelogs::URI::Label::LABEL or + Acquire::Changelogs::URI::Origin::ORIGIN option + exists and if so this value is taken. The value in the Release file can be overridden + with Acquire::Changelogs::URI::Override::Label::LABEL + or Acquire::Changelogs::URI::Override::Origin::ORIGIN. + + The value should be a normal URI to a text file, expect that package specific data is + replaced with the placeholder CHANGEPATH. The + value for it is: 1. if the package is from a component (e.g. main) + this is the first part otherwise it is omitted, 2. the first letter of source package name, + expect if the source package name starts with 'lib' in which case it will + be the first four letters. 3. The complete source package name. 4. the complete name again and + 5. the source version. + The first (if present), second, third and fourth part are separated by a slash ('/') + and between the fourth and fifth part is an underscore ('_'). + + The special value 'no' is available for this option indicating that + this source can't be used to acquire changelog files from. Another source will be tried + if available in this case. + + + @@ -583,10 +665,11 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; information, such as the two package caches srcpkgcache and pkgcache as well as the location to place downloaded archives, Dir::Cache::archives. Generation of caches can be turned off - by setting their names to the empty string. This will slow down startup but - save disk space. It is probably preferable to turn off the pkgcache rather - than the srcpkgcache. Like Dir::State the default - directory is contained in Dir::Cache + by setting pkgcache or srcpkgcache to + "". This will slow down startup but save disk space. It + is probably preferable to turn off the pkgcache rather than the srcpkgcache. + Like Dir::State the default directory is contained in + Dir::Cache Dir::Etc contains the location of configuration files, sourcelist gives the location of the sourcelist and @@ -1159,6 +1242,18 @@ DPkg::TriggersPending "true"; + + + + + Display the external commands that are called by apt hooks. + This includes e.g. the config options + DPkg::{Pre,Post}-Invoke or + APT::Update::{Pre,Post}-Invoke. + + + +