X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/67c160fb95359506bca3e2899ea4851abdb157c4..8c782efd93342c6119e8ba2ff6989b7a164b7f3d:/doc/apt.conf.5.xml diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index ffecc6ceb..0f98a6fe9 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -1,15 +1,9 @@ -%aptent; - - -%aptverbatiment; - - -%aptvendor; + %aptent; + %aptverbatiment; + %aptvendor; ]> @@ -390,9 +384,9 @@ 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.