X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/5a8cd0703bcc751ff5eb0ae5bf196e61bd428c91..40bd06bdb5e6b90aa24762300567d0650dbda751:/doc/apt.conf.5.xml?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index 6a61acd2d..efe986ea8 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -1,13 +1,9 @@ -%aptent; - - -%aptverbatiment; - + %aptent; + %aptverbatiment; + %aptvendor; ]> @@ -98,8 +94,7 @@ 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 @@ -176,6 +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', @@ -380,21 +384,37 @@ 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. - The used bandwidth can be limited with Acquire::http::Dl-Limit - which accepts integer values in kilobytes. The default value is 0 which deactivates - the limit and tries to use all available bandwidth (note that this option implicitly - disables downloading from multiple servers at the same time.) + The used bandwidth can be limited with + Acquire::http::Dl-Limit which accepts integer + values in kilobytes per second. The default value is 0 which + deactivates the limit and tries to use all available bandwidth. + Note that this option implicitly disables downloading from + multiple servers at the same time. 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. + + @@ -554,6 +574,50 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; + + + When downloading, force to use only the IPv4 protocol. + + + + + + When downloading, force to use only the IPv6 protocol. + + + + + + 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. + + + @@ -570,10 +634,11 @@ 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 @@ -675,13 +740,28 @@ 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 + 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. + + + 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. + @@ -1131,6 +1211,18 @@ 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. + + + +