X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/d5b21526b38f816974182c5f56db0e09a0446112..7c8206bf26b8ef6020b543bbc027305dee8f2308:/doc/apt.conf.5.xml diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index fcbf20dac..62dffadc4 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -1,15 +1,9 @@ -%aptent; - - -%aptverbatiment; - - -%aptvendor; + %aptent; + %aptverbatiment; + %aptvendor; ]> @@ -307,6 +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. @@ -318,7 +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. @@ -330,14 +327,17 @@ 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. Try to download deltas called PDiffs for - indexes (like Packages files) instead of downloading - whole ones. True by default. + indexes (like Packages files) instead of + downloading whole ones. True by default. Preferably, this can be set + for specific &sources-list; entries or index files by using the + option there. Two sub-options to limit the use of PDiffs are also available: FileLimit can be used to specify a maximum number of PDiff files should be downloaded to update a file. SizeLimit @@ -390,9 +390,9 @@ 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. @@ -592,6 +592,74 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; + + + The maximum file size of Release/Release.gpg/InRelease files. + The default is 10MB. + + + + + + This option controls if apt will use the DNS SRV server record + as specified in RFC 2782 to select an alternative server to + connect to. + The default is "true". + + + + + + 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. + + + @@ -608,10 +676,11 @@ 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 @@ -632,7 +701,7 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; The configuration item RootDir has a special - meaning. If set, all paths in Dir:: will be + meaning. If set, all paths will be relative to RootDir, even paths that are specified absolutely. So, for instance, if RootDir is set to @@ -641,6 +710,7 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; /var/lib/dpkg/status, then the status file will be looked up in /tmp/staging/var/lib/dpkg/status. + If you want to prefix only relative paths, set Dir instead. @@ -716,10 +786,34 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; 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 - protocol version, the APT configuration space and the packages, files - and versions being changed. Version 3 adds the architecture and MultiArch - flag to each version being dumped. + Version 2 of this protocol sends more information through the requested + file descriptor: a line with the text VERSION 2, + the APT configuration space, and a list of package actions with filename + and version information. + + Each configuration directive line has the form + key=value. Special characters (equal signs, newlines, + nonprintable characters, quotation marks, and percent signs in + key and newlines, nonprintable characters, and percent + signs in value) are %-encoded. Lists are represented + by multiple key::=value lines with the same key. The + configuration section ends with a blank line. + + Package action lines consist of five fields in Version 2: old version, direction + of version change (< for upgrades, > for downgrades, = for no + change), new version, action. The version fields are "-" for no version + at all (for example when installing a package for the first time; no + version is treated as earlier than any real version, so that is an + upgrade, indicated as - < 1.23.4). The action field + is "**CONFIGURE**" if the package is being configured, "**REMOVE**" if it + is being removed, or the filename of a .deb file if it is being + unpacked. + + In Version 3 after each version field follows the architecture + of this version, which is "-" if there is no version, and a field showing + the MultiArch type "same", foreign", "allowed" or "none". Note that "none" + is an incorrect typename which is just kept to remain compatible, it + should be read as "no" and users are encouraged to support both. The version of the protocol to be used for the command cmd can be chosen by setting