Document "pre-auto" option for DSelect::Clean.

Author: bod
Date: 2001-03-13 05:51:29 GMT
Document "pre-auto" option for DSelect::Clean.

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index f0e64012fdf484ed1da62ffdec03d085e03d2035..98d4b15d90b9d7da8957864ed0c85815a7b05fb0 100644 (file)
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -4,7 +4,9 @@ apt (0.5.4) unstable; urgency=low
   * Bi-yearly test on OpenBSD and Solaris
   * Doc updates. Closes: #89121
   * Various cosmetic code updates. Closes: #89066, #89066, #89152
-  
+  * Add "pre-auto" as an option for DSelect::Clean (run autoclean after
+    update).
+
  -- Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>  Thu,  8 Mar 2001 22:48:06 -0700
 
 apt (0.5.3) unstable; urgency=low

diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.sgml b/doc/apt.conf.5.sgml
index a03e90ba1ff07debce2f50186479cb00716cc101..4c79e4cc09a90b291d68bb67609da956c9d503bf 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/apt.conf.5.sgml
+++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.sgml
@@ -297,12 +297,14 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
    <VariableList>
      <VarListEntry><Term>Clean</Term>
      <ListItem><Para>
-     Cache Clean mode; this value may be one of always, auto, prompt and never.
-     always will remove all archives after they have been downloaded while auto
-     will only remove things that are no longer downloadable (replaced with a 
-     new version for instance)
+     Cache Clean mode; this value may be one of always, prompt, auto,
+     pre-auto and never.  always and prompt will remove all packages from
+     the cache after upgrading, prompt (the default) does so conditionally. 
+     auto removes only those packages which are no longer downloadable
+     (replaced with a new version for instance).  pre-auto performs this
+     action before downloading new packages.
      </VarListEntry>
-     
+
      <VarListEntry><Term>Options</Term>
      <ListItem><Para>
      The contents of this variable is passed to &apt-get; as command line