apt (0.3.17.1) unstable; urgency=low
- * Changes in the postinst script. Closes: #56855
- * Fixed bashism. Closes: #57216
+ * Changes in the postinst script. Closes: #56855, #57237
+ * Fixed bashism. Closes: #57216, #57335
+ * Doc updates. Closes: #57772, #57069, #57331
-- Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org> Fri, 14 Jan 2000 08:04:15 -0800
.
APT features complete installation ordering, multiple source capability
and several other unique features, see the Users Guide in
- /usr/doc/apt/users-guide.txt.gz
+ /usr/doc/apt/guide.txt.gz
Package: libapt-pkg-dev
Architecture: any
dit(bf(-f, --fix-broken))
Fix; attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in
-place. This option may be used alone or in conjunction with any of the
-command actions, and is sometimes necessary when running APT for the
-first time; APT itself does not allow broken package dependencies to
-exist on a system. It is possible that a system's dependency structure
-can be so corrupt as to require manual intervention (which usually
-means using dselect or dpkg --remove to eliminate some of the offending
-packages). Use of this option together with -m may produce an error in
-some situations. Configuration Item: bf(APT::Get::Fix-Broken).
+place. This option, when used with install/remove, can omit any packages
+to permit APT to deduce a likely soltion. Any Package that are specified
+must completly correct the problem. The option is sometimes necessary when
+running APT for the first time; APT itself does not allow broken package
+dependencies to exist on a system. It is possible that a system's
+dependency structure can be so corrupt as to require manual intervention
+(which usually means using dselect or dpkg --remove to eliminate some of
+the offending packages). Use of this option together with -m may produce an
+error in some situations. Configuration Item: bf(APT::Get::Fix-Broken).
dit(bf(-h, --help))
Help; display a helpful usage message and exits.
it more readable. Lists can be created by opening a scope an including a
single word enclosed in quotes followed by a semicolon.
In general the sample configuration file in
-em(/usr/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf) is a good guide for how it should look.
+em(/usr/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf) and
+em(/usr/doc/apt/examples/configure-index)
+is a good guide for how it should look.
All of the APT tools take a -o option which allows an arbitary configuration
directive to be specified on the command line. The syntax is a full option
by the ftp_proxy environment variable. To use a ftp proxy you will have to
set the ftp::ProxyLogin script in the configuration file. This entry
specifies the commands to send to tell the proxy server what to connect
-to. Please see em(/usr/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf) for an example of how
+to. Please see em(/usr/doc/apt/examples/configure-index) for an example of how
to do this. The subsitution variables available are $(PROXY_USER),
$(PROXY_PASS), $(SITE_USER), $(SITE_PASS), $(SITE), and $(SITE_PORT).
Each is taken from it's respective URI component.
data in CDROM IDs.
manpagesection(EXAMPLES)
-bf(/usr/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf) contains a sample configuration file
-showing the default values for all possible options.
+bf(/usr/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz) contains a sample configuration
+file showing the default values for all possible options.
manpagesection(FILES)
/etc/apt/apt.conf
defp="[y/N]" def=n
fi
while :;do
- echo -n "$1 $defp" 1>&3
+ echo -n "$1 $defp " 1>&3
read ans
case $ans in
Y|y|N|n) break;;