X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/597341fe0f0a87c3888a62ce02631db8b25aeb4b..96ab3c6f62becde2fc67b81c65eef2881856fd22:/doc/apt.conf.5.xml diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index be1d7ade8..9973fe42b 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -98,8 +98,7 @@ APT { DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; - In general the sample configuration file in - &docdir;examples/apt.conf &configureindex; + In general the sample configuration file &configureindex; is a good guide for how it should look. Case is not significant in names of configuration items, so in the @@ -689,11 +688,17 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --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. - Version 2 of this protocol dumps more information, including the + Version 2 of this protocol dumps more information, including the protocol version, the APT configuration space and the packages, files - and versions being changed. Version 2 is enabled by setting - DPkg::Tools::options::cmd::Version to 2. cmd is a - command given to Pre-Install-Pkgs. + and versions being changed. Version 3 adds the architecture and MultiArch + flag to each version being dumped. + + The version of the protocol to be used for the command + cmd can be chosen by setting + 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. +