X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/7ea4af9da25a802516461434b12a61e21743f960..4429616bd6b13499981da3d7d542f71e4f3ece8c:/doc/apt.conf.5.xml diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index 39e2c8e6b..e37456d73 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -199,9 +199,20 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; anything that those packages depend on. - Cache-Limit - APT uses a fixed size memory mapped cache file to store the 'available' - information. This sets the size of that cache (in bytes). + Cache-Start, Cache-Grow and Cache-Limit + APT uses since version 0.7.26 a resizable memory mapped cache file to store the 'available' + information. Cache-Start acts as a hint to which size the Cache will grow + and is therefore the amount of memory APT will request at startup. The default value is + 20971520 bytes (~20 MB). Note that these amount of space need to be available for APT + otherwise it will likely fail ungracefully, so for memory restricted devices these value should + be lowered while on systems with a lot of configured sources this might be increased. + Cache-Grow defines in byte with the default of 1048576 (~1 MB) how much + the Cache size will be increased in the event the space defined by Cache-Start + is not enough. These value will be applied again and again until either the cache is big + enough to store all information or the size of the cache reaches the Cache-Limit. + The default of Cache-Limit is 0 which stands for no limit. + If Cache-Grow is set to 0 the automatic grow of the cache is disabled. + Build-Essential @@ -436,6 +447,15 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; really prefer uncompressed files to support the usage of local mirrors. + GzipIndexes + + When downloading gzip compressed indexes (Packages, Sources, or + Translations), keep them gzip compressed locally instead of unpacking + them. This saves quite a lot of disk space at the expense of more CPU + requirements when building the local package caches. False by default. + + + Languages The Languages subsection controls which Translation files are downloaded and in which order APT tries to display the Description-Translations. APT will try to display the first