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- "the system but does provide operations to search and generate interesting "
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+ "<command>apt-get</command> is the command-line tool for handling packages, "
+ "and may be considered the user's \"back-end\" to other tools using the APT "
+ "library. Several \"front-end\" interfaces exist, such as &dselect;, "
+ "&aptitude;, &synaptic; and &wajig;."
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+ "<literal>update</literal> is used to resynchronize the package index files "
+ "from their sources. The indexes of available packages are fetched from the "
+ "location(s) specified in <filename>/etc/apt/sources.list</filename>. For "
+ "example, when using a Debian archive, this command retrieves and scans the "
+ "<filename>Packages.gz</filename> files, so that information about new and "
+ "updated packages is available. An <literal>update</literal> should always be "
+ "performed before an <literal>upgrade</literal> or "
+ "<literal>dist-upgrade</literal>. Please be aware that the overall progress "
+ "meter will be incorrect as the size of the package files cannot be known in "
+ "advance."
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- "the command line. Remaining arguments are package names. The available "
- "versions and reverse dependencies of each package listed are listed, as well "
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- "question. Thus, forward dependencies must be satisfied for a package, but "
- "reverse dependencies need not be. For instance, <command>apt-cache showpkg "
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+ "<literal>upgrade</literal> is used to install the newest versions of all "
+ "packages currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in "
+ "<filename>/etc/apt/sources.list</filename>. Packages currently installed "
+ "with new versions available are retrieved and upgraded; under no "
+ "circumstances are currently installed packages removed, or packages not "
+ "already installed retrieved and installed. New versions of currently "
+ "installed packages that cannot be upgraded without changing the install "
+ "status of another package will be left at their current version. An "
+ "<literal>update</literal> must be performed first so that "
+ "<command>apt-get</command> knows that new versions of packages are "
+ "available."
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+ "<literal>dist-upgrade</literal> in addition to performing the function of "
+ "<literal>upgrade</literal>, also intelligently handles changing dependencies "
+ "with new versions of packages; <command>apt-get</command> has a \"smart\" "
+ "conflict resolution system, and it will attempt to upgrade the most "
+ "important packages at the expense of less important ones if necessary. The "
+ "<literal>dist-upgrade</literal> command may therefore remove some packages. "
+ "The <filename>/etc/apt/sources.list</filename> file contains a list of "
+ "locations from which to retrieve desired package files. See also "
+ "&apt-preferences; for a mechanism for overriding the general settings for "
+ "individual packages."
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- "installed; libreadlineg2 and libreadline2-altdev do not have to be "
- "installed. For the specific meaning of the remainder of the output it is "
- "best to consult the apt source code."
+ "<literal>dselect-upgrade</literal> is used in conjunction with the "
+ "traditional Debian packaging front-end, "
+ "&dselect;. <literal>dselect-upgrade</literal> follows the changes made by "
+ "&dselect; to the <literal>Status</literal> field of available packages, and "
+ "performs the actions necessary to realize that state (for instance, the "
+ "removal of old and the installation of new packages)."
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- "<literal>stats</literal> displays some statistics about the cache. No "
- "further arguments are expected. Statistics reported are:"
+ "<literal>install</literal> is followed by one or more packages desired for "
+ "installation or upgrading. Each package is a package name, not a fully "
+ "qualified filename (for instance, in a Debian system, "
+ "<package>apt-utils</package> would be the argument provided, not "
+ "<filename>apt-utils_&apt-product-version;_amd64.deb</filename>). All "
+ "packages required by the package(s) specified for installation will also be "
+ "retrieved and installed. The <filename>/etc/apt/sources.list</filename> "
+ "file is used to locate the desired packages. If a hyphen is appended to the "
+ "package name (with no intervening space), the identified package will be "
+ "removed if it is installed. Similarly a plus sign can be used to designate "
+ "a package to install. These latter features may be used to override "
+ "decisions made by apt-get's conflict resolution system."
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+ "A specific version of a package can be selected for installation by "
+ "following the package name with an equals and the version of the package to "
+ "select. This will cause that version to be located and selected for "
+ "install. Alternatively a specific distribution can be selected by following "
+ "the package name with a slash and the version of the distribution or the "
+ "Archive name (stable, testing, unstable)."
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- "between their names and the names used by other packages for them in "
- "dependencies. The majority of packages fall into this category."
+ "Both of the version selection mechanisms can downgrade packages and must be "
+ "used with care."
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- "\"mail-transport-agent\" in the Debian system is a pure virtual package; "
- "several packages provide \"mail-transport-agent\", but there is no package "
- "named \"mail-transport-agent\"."
+ "This is also the target to use if you want to upgrade one or more "
+ "already-installed packages without upgrading every package you have on your "
+ "system. Unlike the \"upgrade\" target, which installs the newest version of "
+ "all currently installed packages, \"install\" will install the newest "
+ "version of only the package(s) specified. Simply provide the name of the "
+ "package(s) you wish to upgrade, and if a newer version is available, it (and "
+ "its dependencies, as described above) will be downloaded and installed."
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+ "Finally, the &apt-preferences; mechanism allows you to create an alternative "
+ "installation policy for individual packages."
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- "packages may be an evidence if a full distribution is not accessed, or if a "
- "package (real or virtual) has been dropped from the distribution. Usually "
- "they are referenced from Conflicts or Breaks statements."
+ "If no package matches the given expression and the expression contains one "
+ "of '.', '?' or '*' then it is assumed to be a POSIX regular expression, and "
+ "it is applied to all package names in the database. Any matches are then "
+ "installed (or removed). Note that matching is done by substring so 'lo.*' "
+ "matches 'how-lo' and 'lowest'. If this is undesired, anchor the regular "
+ "expression with a '^' or '$' character, or create a more specific regular "
+ "expression."
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- "total package names. If more than one distribution is being accessed (for "
- "instance, \"stable\" and \"unstable\"), this value can be considerably "
- "larger than the number of total package names."
+ "<literal>remove</literal> is identical to <literal>install</literal> except "
+ "that packages are removed instead of installed. Note that removing a package "
+ "leaves its configuration files on the system. If a plus sign is appended to "
+ "the package name (with no intervening space), the identified package will be "
+ "installed instead of removed."
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- "<literal>Total dependencies</literal> is the number of dependency "
- "relationships claimed by all of the packages in the cache."
+ "<literal>purge</literal> is identical to <literal>remove</literal> except "
+ "that packages are removed and purged (any configuration files are deleted "
+ "too)."
msgstr ""
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- "<literal>showsrc</literal> displays all the source package records that "
- "match the given package names. All versions are shown, as well as all "
- "records that declare the name to be a binary package."
+ "<literal>source</literal> causes <command>apt-get</command> to fetch source "
+ "packages. APT will examine the available packages to decide which source "
+ "package to fetch. It will then find and download into the current directory "
+ "the newest available version of that source package while respecting the "
+ "default release, set with the option "
+ "<literal>APT::Default-Release</literal>, the <option>-t</option> option or "
+ "per package with the <literal>pkg/release</literal> syntax, if possible."
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- "<literal>dump</literal> shows a short listing of every package in the "
- "cache. It is primarily for debugging."
+ "Source packages are tracked separately from binary packages via "
+ "<literal>deb-src</literal> lines in the &sources-list; file. This means that "
+ "you will need to add such a line for each repository you want to get sources "
+ "from; otherwise you will probably get either the wrong (too old/too new) "
+ "source versions or none at all."
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- "<literal>dumpavail</literal> prints out an available list to stdout. This is "
- "suitable for use with &dpkg; and is used by the &dselect; method."
+ "If the <option>--compile</option> option is specified then the package will "
+ "be compiled to a binary .deb using <command>dpkg-buildpackage</command> for "
+ "the architecture as defined by the <command>--host-architecture</command> "
+ "option. If <option>--download-only</option> is specified then the source "
+ "package will not be unpacked."
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- "<literal>unmet</literal> displays a summary of all unmet dependencies in the "
- "package cache."
+ "A specific source version can be retrieved by postfixing the source name "
+ "with an equals and then the version to fetch, similar to the mechanism used "
+ "for the package files. This enables exact matching of the source package "
+ "name and version, implicitly enabling the "
+ "<literal>APT::Get::Only-Source</literal> option."
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+ "Note that source packages are not installed and tracked in the "
+ "<command>dpkg</command> database like binary packages; they are simply "
+ "downloaded to the current directory, like source tarballs."
msgstr ""
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- "<literal>search</literal> performs a full text search on all available "
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- "the package names and the descriptions for an occurrence of the regular "
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- "output identical to <literal>show</literal> is produced for each matched "
- "package, and if <option>--names-only</option> is given then the long "
- "description is not searched, only the package name is."
+ "<literal>build-dep</literal> causes apt-get to install/remove packages in an "
+ "attempt to satisfy the build dependencies for a source package. By default "
+ "the dependencies are satisfied to build the package natively. If desired a "
+ "host-architecture can be specified with the "
+ "<option>--host-architecture</option> option instead."
msgstr ""
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- "Separate arguments can be used to specify multiple search patterns that are "
- "and'ed together."
+ "<literal>check</literal> is a diagnostic tool; it updates the package cache "
+ "and checks for broken dependencies."
msgstr ""
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- "<literal>depends</literal> shows a listing of each dependency a package has "
- "and all the possible other packages that can fulfill that dependency."
+ "<literal>download</literal> will download the given binary package into the "
+ "current directory."
msgstr ""
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- msgid "<optional><replaceable>&synopsis-prefix;</replaceable></optional>"
+ "<literal>clean</literal> clears out the local repository of retrieved "
+ "package files. It removes everything but the lock file from "
+ "<filename>&cachedir;/archives/</filename> and "
+ "<filename>&cachedir;/archives/partial/</filename>. When APT is used as a "
+ "&dselect; method, <literal>clean</literal> is run automatically. Those who "
+ "do not use dselect will likely want to run <literal>apt-get clean</literal> "
+ "from time to time to free up disk space."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:196
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:225
msgid ""
- "This command prints the name of each package APT knows. The optional "
- "argument is a prefix match to filter the name list. The output is suitable "
- "for use in a shell tab complete function and the output is generated "
- "extremely quickly. This command is best used with the "
- "<option>--generate</option> option."
+ "Like <literal>clean</literal>, <literal>autoclean</literal> clears out the "
+ "local repository of retrieved package files. The difference is that it only "
+ "removes package files that can no longer be downloaded, and are largely "
+ "useless. This allows a cache to be maintained over a long period without it "
+ "growing out of control. The configuration option "
+ "<literal>APT::Clean-Installed</literal> will prevent installed packages from "
+ "being erased if it is set to off."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:201
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:235
msgid ""
- "Note that a package which APT knows of is not necessarily available to "
- "download, installable or installed, e.g. virtual packages are also listed in "
- "the generated list."
+ "<literal>autoremove</literal> is used to remove packages that were "
+ "automatically installed to satisfy dependencies for other packages and are "
+ "now no longer needed."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:207
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:240
msgid ""
- "<literal>dotty</literal> takes a list of packages on the command line and "
- "generates output suitable for use by dotty from the <ulink "
- "url=\"http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/\">GraphViz</ulink> "
- "package. The result will be a set of nodes and edges representing the "
- "relationships between the packages. By default the given packages will trace "
- "out all dependent packages; this can produce a very large graph. To limit "
- "the output to only the packages listed on the command line, set the "
- "<literal>APT::Cache::GivenOnly</literal> option."
+ "<literal>changelog</literal> downloads a package changelog and displays it "
+ "through <command>sensible-pager</command>. The server name and base "
+ "directory is defined in the <literal>APT::Changelogs::Server</literal> "
+ "variable (e.g. <ulink "
+ "url=\"http://packages.debian.org/changelogs\">packages.debian.org/changelogs</ulink> "
+ "for Debian or <ulink "
+ "url=\"http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs\">changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs</ulink> "
+ "for Ubuntu). By default it displays the changelog for the version that is "
+ "installed. However, you can specify the same options as for the "
+ "<option>install</option> command."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:216
- msgid ""
- "The resulting nodes will have several shapes; normal packages are boxes, "
- "pure virtual packages are triangles, mixed virtual packages are diamonds, "
- "missing packages are hexagons. Orange boxes mean recursion was stopped (leaf "
- "packages), blue lines are pre-depends, green lines are conflicts."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:258 apt-cache.8.xml:248 apt-mark.8.xml:108 apt-config.8.xml:84 apt-extracttemplates.1.xml:52 apt-sortpkgs.1.xml:48 apt-ftparchive.1.xml:504
+ msgid "options"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:221
- msgid "Caution, dotty cannot graph larger sets of packages."
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:263
+ msgid ""
+ "Do not consider recommended packages as a dependency for installing. "
+ "Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Install-Recommends</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:225
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:268
msgid ""
- "The same as <literal>dotty</literal>, only for xvcg from the <ulink "
- "url=\"http://rw4.cs.uni-sb.de/users/sander/html/gsvcg1.html\">VCG "
- "tool</ulink>."
+ "Consider suggested packages as a dependency for installing. Configuration "
+ "Item: <literal>APT::Install-Suggests</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:229
- msgid "<optional><replaceable>&synopsis-pkg;</replaceable>…</optional>"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:273
+ msgid ""
+ "Download only; package files are only retrieved, not unpacked or installed. "
+ "Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Get::Download-Only</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:230
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:278
msgid ""
- "<literal>policy</literal> is meant to help debug issues relating to the "
- "preferences file. With no arguments it will print out the priorities of each "
- "source. Otherwise it prints out detailed information about the priority "
- "selection of the named package."
+ "Fix; attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in place. This "
+ "option, when used with install/remove, can omit any packages to permit APT "
+ "to deduce a likely solution. If packages are specified, these have to "
+ "completely 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 <command>dpkg --remove</command> to eliminate some "
+ "of the offending packages). Use of this option together with "
+ "<option>-m</option> may produce an error in some situations. Configuration "
+ "Item: <literal>APT::Get::Fix-Broken</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:237
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:293
msgid ""
- "<literal>apt-cache</literal>'s <literal>madison</literal> command attempts "
- "to mimic the output format and a subset of the functionality of the Debian "
- "archive management tool, <literal>madison</literal>. It displays available "
- "versions of a package in a tabular format. Unlike the original "
- "<literal>madison</literal>, it can only display information for the "
- "architecture for which APT has retrieved package lists "
- "(<literal>APT::Architecture</literal>)."
+ "Ignore missing packages; if packages cannot be retrieved or fail the "
+ "integrity check after retrieval (corrupted package files), hold back those "
+ "packages and handle the result. Use of this option together with "
+ "<option>-f</option> may produce an error in some situations. If a package is "
+ "selected for installation (particularly if it is mentioned on the command "
+ "line) and it could not be downloaded then it will be silently held back. "
+ "Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Get::Fix-Missing</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:248 apt-config.8.xml:84 apt-extracttemplates.1.xml:52 apt-ftparchive.1.xml:504 apt-get.8.xml:259 apt-mark.8.xml:108 apt-sortpkgs.1.xml:48
- msgid "options"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:304
+ msgid ""
+ "Disables downloading of packages. This is best used with "
+ "<option>--ignore-missing</option> to force APT to use only the .debs it has "
+ "already downloaded. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::Get::Download</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:253
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:311
msgid ""
- "Select the file to store the package cache. The package cache is the primary "
- "cache used by all operations. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>Dir::Cache::pkgcache</literal>."
+ "Quiet; produces output suitable for logging, omitting progress indicators. "
+ "More q's will produce more quiet up to a maximum of 2. You can also use "
+ "<option>-q=#</option> to set the quiet level, overriding the configuration "
+ "file. Note that quiet level 2 implies <option>-y</option>; you should never "
+ "use -qq without a no-action modifier such as -d, --print-uris or -s as APT "
+ "may decide to do something you did not expect. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>quiet</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:259
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:326
msgid ""
- "Select the file to store the source cache. The source is used only by "
- "<literal>gencaches</literal> and it stores a parsed version of the package "
- "information from remote sources. When building the package cache the source "
- "cache is used to avoid reparsing all of the package files. Configuration "
- "Item: <literal>Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache</literal>."
+ "No action; perform a simulation of events that would occur but do not "
+ "actually change the system. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::Get::Simulate</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:267
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:330
msgid ""
- "Quiet; produces output suitable for logging, omitting progress indicators. "
- "More q's will produce more quietness up to a maximum of 2. You can also use "
- "<option>-q=#</option> to set the quietness level, overriding the "
- "configuration file. Configuration Item: <literal>quiet</literal>."
+ "Simulated runs performed as a user will automatically deactivate locking "
+ "(<literal>Debug::NoLocking</literal>), and if the option "
+ "<literal>APT::Get::Show-User-Simulation-Note</literal> is set (as it is by "
+ "default) a notice will also be displayed indicating that this is only a "
+ "simulation. Runs performed as root do not trigger either NoLocking or the "
+ "notice - superusers should know what they are doing without further warnings "
+ "from <literal>apt-get</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:274
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:338
msgid ""
- "Print only important dependencies; for use with <literal>unmet</literal> and "
- "<literal>depends</literal>. Causes only Depends and Pre-Depends relations to "
- "be printed. Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Cache::Important</literal>."
+ "Simulated runs print out a series of lines, each representing a "
+ "<command>dpkg</command> operation: configure (<literal>Conf</literal>), "
+ "remove (<literal>Remv</literal>) or unpack "
+ "(<literal>Inst</literal>). Square brackets indicate broken packages, and "
+ "empty square brackets indicate breaks that are of no consequence (rare)."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:288
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:346
msgid ""
- "Per default the <literal>depends</literal> and <literal>rdepends</literal> "
- "print all dependencies. This can be tweaked with these flags which will omit "
- "the specified dependency type. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::Cache::Show<replaceable>DependencyType</replaceable></literal> "
- "e.g. <literal>APT::Cache::ShowRecommends</literal>."
+ "Automatic yes to prompts; assume \"yes\" as answer to all prompts and run "
+ "non-interactively. If an undesirable situation, such as changing a held "
+ "package, trying to install a unauthenticated package or removing an "
+ "essential package occurs then <literal>apt-get</literal> will abort. "
+ "Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Get::Assume-Yes</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:295
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:354
msgid ""
- "Print full package records when searching. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::Cache::ShowFull</literal>."
+ "Automatic \"no\" to all prompts. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::Get::Assume-No</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:300
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:359
msgid ""
- "Print full records for all available versions. This is the default; to turn "
- "it off, use <option>--no-all-versions</option>. If "
- "<option>--no-all-versions</option> is specified, only the candidate version "
- "will be displayed (the one which would be selected for installation). This "
- "option is only applicable to the <literal>show</literal> command. "
- "Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Cache::AllVersions</literal>."
+ "Show upgraded packages; print out a list of all packages that are to be "
+ "upgraded. Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Get::Show-Upgraded</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:309
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:365
msgid ""
- "Perform automatic package cache regeneration, rather than use the cache as "
- "it is. This is the default; to turn it off, use "
- "<option>--no-generate</option>. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::Cache::Generate</literal>."
+ "Show full versions for upgraded and installed packages. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::Get::Show-Versions</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:315
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:371
msgid ""
- "Only search on the package names, not the long descriptions. Configuration "
- "Item: <literal>APT::Cache::NamesOnly</literal>."
+ "This option controls the architecture packages are built for by "
+ "<command>apt-get source --compile</command> and how cross-builddependencies "
+ "are satisfied. By default is it not set which means that the host "
+ "architecture is the same as the build architecture (which is defined by "
+ "<literal>APT::Architecture</literal>). Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::Get::Host-Architecture</literal>"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:320
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:381
msgid ""
- "Make <literal>pkgnames</literal> print all names, including virtual packages "
- "and missing dependencies. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::Cache::AllNames</literal>."
+ "Compile source packages after downloading them. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::Get::Compile</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:326
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:386
msgid ""
- "Make <literal>depends</literal> and <literal>rdepends</literal> recursive so "
- "that all packages mentioned are printed once. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::Cache::RecurseDepends</literal>."
+ "Ignore package holds; this causes <command>apt-get</command> to ignore a "
+ "hold placed on a package. This may be useful in conjunction with "
+ "<literal>dist-upgrade</literal> to override a large number of undesired "
+ "holds. Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Ignore-Hold</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:333
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:393
msgid ""
- "Limit the output of <literal>depends</literal> and "
- "<literal>rdepends</literal> to packages which are currently installed. "
- "Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Cache::Installed</literal>."
- msgstr ""
-
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:343 apt-get.8.xml:519 apt-key.8.xml:174 apt-mark.8.xml:125 apt.conf.5.xml:1118 apt_preferences.5.xml:698
- msgid "Files"
- msgstr ""
-
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:350 apt-cdrom.8.xml:144 apt-config.8.xml:109 apt-extracttemplates.1.xml:70 apt-ftparchive.1.xml:607 apt-get.8.xml:529 apt-key.8.xml:195 apt-mark.8.xml:131 apt-secure.8.xml:192 apt-sortpkgs.1.xml:63 apt.conf.5.xml:1124 apt_preferences.5.xml:705 sources.list.5.xml:252
- msgid "See Also"
- msgstr ""
-
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:351
- msgid "&apt-conf;, &sources-list;, &apt-get;"
- msgstr ""
-
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:355 apt-cdrom.8.xml:149 apt-config.8.xml:114 apt-extracttemplates.1.xml:74 apt-ftparchive.1.xml:611 apt-get.8.xml:535 apt-mark.8.xml:135 apt-sortpkgs.1.xml:67
- msgid "Diagnostics"
+ "Do not upgrade packages; when used in conjunction with "
+ "<literal>install</literal>, <literal>no-upgrade</literal> will prevent "
+ "packages on the command line from being upgraded if they are already "
+ "installed. Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Get::Upgrade</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-cache.8.xml:356
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:400
msgid ""
- "<command>apt-cache</command> returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 "
- "on error."
+ "Do not install new packages; when used in conjunction with "
+ "<literal>install</literal>, <literal>only-upgrade</literal> will install "
+ "upgrades for already installed packages only and ignore requests to install "
+ "new packages. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::Get::Only-Upgrade</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refnamediv><refpurpose>
- #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:32
- msgid "APT CDROM management utility"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:408
+ msgid ""
+ "Force yes; this is a dangerous option that will cause apt to continue "
+ "without prompting if it is doing something potentially harmful. It should "
+ "not be used except in very special situations. Using "
+ "<literal>force-yes</literal> can potentially destroy your system! "
+ "Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Get::force-yes</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:38
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:416
msgid ""
- "<command>apt-cdrom</command> is used to add a new CDROM to APTs list of "
- "available sources. <command>apt-cdrom</command> takes care of determining "
- "the structure of the disc as well as correcting for several possible "
- "mis-burns and verifying the index files."
+ "Instead of fetching the files to install their URIs are printed. Each URI "
+ "will have the path, the destination file name, the size and the expected MD5 "
+ "hash. Note that the file name to write to will not always match the file "
+ "name on the remote site! This also works with the <literal>source</literal> "
+ "and <literal>update</literal> commands. When used with the "
+ "<literal>update</literal> command the MD5 and size are not included, and it "
+ "is up to the user to decompress any compressed files. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::Get::Print-URIs</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:45
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:427
msgid ""
- "It is necessary to use <command>apt-cdrom</command> to add CDs to the APT "
- "system, it cannot be done by hand. Furthermore each disk in a multi-cd set "
- "must be inserted and scanned separately to account for possible mis-burns."
+ "Use purge instead of remove for anything that would be removed. An asterisk "
+ "(\"*\") will be displayed next to packages which are scheduled to be "
+ "purged. <option>remove --purge</option> is equivalent to the "
+ "<option>purge</option> command. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::Get::Purge</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:56
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:435
msgid ""
- "<literal>add</literal> is used to add a new disc to the source list. It will "
- "unmount the CDROM device, prompt for a disk to be inserted and then proceed "
- "to scan it and copy the index files. If the disc does not have a proper "
- "<filename>disk</filename> directory you will be prompted for a descriptive "
- "title."
+ "Re-install packages that are already installed and at the newest version. "
+ "Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Get::ReInstall</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:64
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:440
msgid ""
- "APT uses a CDROM ID to track which disc is currently in the drive and "
- "maintains a database of these IDs in "
- "<filename>&statedir;/cdroms.list</filename>"
+ "This option is on by default; use <literal>--no-list-cleanup</literal> to "
+ "turn it off. When it is on, <command>apt-get</command> will automatically "
+ "manage the contents of <filename>&statedir;/lists</filename> to ensure that "
+ "obsolete files are erased. The only reason to turn it off is if you "
+ "frequently change your sources list. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::Get::List-Cleanup</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:72
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:450
msgid ""
- "A debugging tool to report the identity of the current disc as well as the "
- "stored file name"
+ "This option controls the default input to the policy engine; it creates a "
+ "default pin at priority 990 using the specified release string. This "
+ "overrides the general settings in "
+ "<filename>/etc/apt/preferences</filename>. Specifically pinned packages are "
+ "not affected by the value of this option. In short, this option lets you "
+ "have simple control over which distribution packages will be retrieved "
+ "from. Some common examples might be <option>-t '2.1*'</option>, <option>-t "
+ "unstable</option> or <option>-t sid</option>. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::Default-Release</literal>; see also the &apt-preferences; "
+ "manual page."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:80 apt-key.8.xml:160
- msgid "Options"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:465
+ msgid ""
+ "Only perform operations that are 'trivial'. Logically this can be considered "
+ "related to <option>--assume-yes</option>; where "
+ "<option>--assume-yes</option> will answer yes to any prompt, "
+ "<option>--trivial-only</option> will answer no. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::Get::Trivial-Only</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:85
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:472
msgid ""
- "Mount point; specify the location to mount the cdrom. This mount point must "
- "be listed in <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> and properly configured. "
- "Configuration Item: <literal>Acquire::cdrom::mount</literal>."
+ "If any packages are to be removed apt-get immediately aborts without "
+ "prompting. Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Get::Remove</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:94
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:478
msgid ""
- "Rename a disc; change the label of a disk or override the disks given "
- "label. This option will cause <command>apt-cdrom</command> to prompt for a "
- "new label. Configuration Item: <literal>APT::CDROM::Rename</literal>."
+ "If the command is either <literal>install</literal> or "
+ "<literal>remove</literal>, then this option acts like running the "
+ "<literal>autoremove</literal> command, removing unused dependency "
+ "packages. Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Get::AutomaticRemove</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:103
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:485
msgid ""
- "No mounting; prevent <command>apt-cdrom</command> from mounting and "
- "unmounting the mount point. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::CDROM::NoMount</literal>."
+ "Only has meaning for the <literal>source</literal> and "
+ "<literal>build-dep</literal> commands. Indicates that the given source "
+ "names are not to be mapped through the binary table. This means that if "
+ "this option is specified, these commands will only accept source package "
+ "names as arguments, rather than accepting binary package names and looking "
+ "up the corresponding source package. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::Get::Only-Source</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:111
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:496
msgid ""
- "Fast Copy; Assume the package files are valid and do not check every "
- "package. This option should be used only if <command>apt-cdrom</command> has "
- "been run on this disc before and did not detect any errors. Configuration "
- "Item: <literal>APT::CDROM::Fast</literal>."
+ "Download only the diff, dsc, or tar file of a source archive. Configuration "
+ "Item: <literal>APT::Get::Diff-Only</literal>, "
+ "<literal>APT::Get::Dsc-Only</literal>, and "
+ "<literal>APT::Get::Tar-Only</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:121
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:502
msgid ""
- "Thorough Package Scan; This option may be needed with some old Debian "
- "1.1/1.2 discs that have Package files in strange places. It takes much "
- "longer to scan the CD but will pick them all up."
+ "Only process architecture-dependent build-dependencies. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::Get::Arch-Only</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:132
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:507
msgid ""
- "No Changes; Do not change the &sources-list; file and do not write index "
- "files. Everything is still checked however. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::CDROM::NoAct</literal>."
+ "Ignore if packages can't be authenticated and don't prompt about it. This "
+ "is useful for tools like pbuilder. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated</literal>."
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:518 apt-cache.8.xml:343 apt-key.8.xml:174 apt-mark.8.xml:125 apt.conf.5.xml:1156 apt_preferences.5.xml:698
+ msgid "Files"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:528 apt-cache.8.xml:350 apt-key.8.xml:195 apt-mark.8.xml:131 apt-secure.8.xml:191 apt-cdrom.8.xml:144 apt-config.8.xml:109 apt.conf.5.xml:1162 apt_preferences.5.xml:705 sources.list.5.xml:252 apt-extracttemplates.1.xml:70 apt-sortpkgs.1.xml:63 apt-ftparchive.1.xml:607
+ msgid "See Also"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:145
- msgid "&apt-conf;, &apt-get;, &sources-list;"
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:529
+ msgid ""
+ "&apt-cache;, &apt-cdrom;, &dpkg;, &dselect;, &sources-list;, &apt-conf;, "
+ "&apt-config;, &apt-secure;, The APT User's guide in &guidesdir;, "
+ "&apt-preferences;, the APT Howto."
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:534 apt-cache.8.xml:355 apt-mark.8.xml:135 apt-cdrom.8.xml:149 apt-config.8.xml:114 apt-extracttemplates.1.xml:74 apt-sortpkgs.1.xml:67 apt-ftparchive.1.xml:611
+ msgid "Diagnostics"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:150
+ #: apt-get.8.xml:535
msgid ""
- "<command>apt-cdrom</command> returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 "
- "on error."
+ "<command>apt-get</command> returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 on "
+ "error."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refnamediv><refpurpose>
- #: apt-config.8.xml:33
- msgid "APT Configuration Query program"
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:33
+ msgid "query the APT cache"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-config.8.xml:39
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:39
msgid ""
- "<command>apt-config</command> is an internal program used by various "
- "portions of the APT suite to provide consistent configurability. It accesses "
- "the main configuration file <filename>/etc/apt/apt.conf</filename> in a "
- "manner that is easy to use by scripted applications."
+ "<command>apt-cache</command> performs a variety of operations on APT's "
+ "package cache. <command>apt-cache</command> does not manipulate the state of "
+ "the system but does provide operations to search and generate interesting "
+ "output from the package metadata."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-config.8.xml:51
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:49
msgid ""
- "shell is used to access the configuration information from a shell "
- "script. It is given pairs of arguments, the first being a shell variable and "
- "the second the configuration value to query. As output it lists a series of "
- "shell assignments commands for each present value. In a shell script it "
- "should be used like:"
+ "<literal>gencaches</literal> creates APT's package cache. This is done "
+ "implicitly by all commands needing this cache if it is missing or outdated."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><informalexample><programlisting>
- #: apt-config.8.xml:59
- #, no-wrap
- msgid ""
- "OPTS=\"-f\"\n"
- "RES=`apt-config shell OPTS MyApp::options`\n"
- "eval $RES\n"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><term><option><replaceable>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:53 apt-cache.8.xml:142 apt-cache.8.xml:163 apt-cache.8.xml:185 apt-cache.8.xml:190 apt-cache.8.xml:206 apt-cache.8.xml:224 apt-cache.8.xml:236
+ msgid "&synopsis-pkg;"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-config.8.xml:64
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:54
msgid ""
- "This will set the shell environment variable $OPTS to the value of "
- "MyApp::options with a default of <option>-f</option>."
+ "<literal>showpkg</literal> displays information about the packages listed on "
+ "the command line. Remaining arguments are package names. The available "
+ "versions and reverse dependencies of each package listed are listed, as well "
+ "as forward dependencies for each version. Forward (normal) dependencies are "
+ "those packages upon which the package in question depends; reverse "
+ "dependencies are those packages that depend upon the package in "
+ "question. Thus, forward dependencies must be satisfied for a package, but "
+ "reverse dependencies need not be. For instance, <command>apt-cache showpkg "
+ "libreadline2</command> would produce output similar to the following:"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-config.8.xml:68
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><informalexample><programlisting>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:66
+ #, no-wrap
msgid ""
- "The configuration item may be postfixed with a /[fdbi]. f returns file "
- "names, d returns directories, b returns true or false and i returns an "
- "integer. Each of the returns is normalized and verified internally."
+ "Package: libreadline2\n"
+ "Versions: 2.1-12(/var/state/apt/lists/foo_Packages),\n"
+ "Reverse Depends: \n"
+ " libreadlineg2,libreadline2\n"
+ " libreadline2-altdev,libreadline2\n"
+ "Dependencies:\n"
+ "2.1-12 - libc5 (2 5.4.0-0) ncurses3.0 (0 (null))\n"
+ "Provides:\n"
+ "2.1-12 - \n"
+ "Reverse Provides: \n"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-config.8.xml:77
- msgid "Just show the contents of the configuration space."
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:78
+ msgid ""
+ "Thus it may be seen that libreadline2, version 2.1-12, depends on libc5 and "
+ "ncurses3.0 which must be installed for libreadline2 to work. In turn, "
+ "libreadlineg2 and libreadline2-altdev depend on libreadline2. If "
+ "libreadline2 is installed, libc5 and ncurses3.0 (and ldso) must also be "
+ "installed; libreadlineg2 and libreadline2-altdev do not have to be "
+ "installed. For the specific meaning of the remainder of the output it is "
+ "best to consult the apt source code."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-config.8.xml:90
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:87
msgid ""
- "Include options which have an empty value. This is the default, so use "
- "--no-empty to remove them from the output."
- msgstr ""
-
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><term><option><replaceable>
- #: apt-config.8.xml:95
- msgid "%f "%v";%n"
+ "<literal>stats</literal> displays some statistics about the cache. No "
+ "further arguments are expected. Statistics reported are:"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-config.8.xml:96
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:90
msgid ""
- "Defines the output of each config option. %t will be replaced with "
- "the name of the option, %f with the complete optionname and %v "
- "with the value of the option. Use uppercase letters and special characters "
- "in the value will be encoded to ensure that it can e.g. be savely used in a "
- "quoted-string as defined by RFC822. Additionally %n will be replaced "
- "by a newline, %N by a tab. A % can be printed by using "
- "%%."
+ "<literal>Total package names</literal> is the number of package names found "
+ "in the cache."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-config.8.xml:110 apt-extracttemplates.1.xml:71 apt-ftparchive.1.xml:608 apt-sortpkgs.1.xml:64
- msgid "&apt-conf;"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:94
+ msgid ""
+ "<literal>Normal packages</literal> is the number of regular, ordinary "
+ "package names; these are packages that bear a one-to-one correspondence "
+ "between their names and the names used by other packages for them in "
+ "dependencies. The majority of packages fall into this category."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-config.8.xml:115
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:100
msgid ""
- "<command>apt-config</command> returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 "
- "on error."
+ "<literal>Pure virtual packages</literal> is the number of packages that "
+ "exist only as a virtual package name; that is, packages only \"provide\" the "
+ "virtual package name, and no package actually uses the name. For instance, "
+ "\"mail-transport-agent\" in the Debian system is a pure virtual package; "
+ "several packages provide \"mail-transport-agent\", but there is no package "
+ "named \"mail-transport-agent\"."
msgstr ""
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- #: apt-extracttemplates.1.xml:26 apt-ftparchive.1.xml:26 apt-sortpkgs.1.xml:26
- msgid "1"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:108
+ msgid ""
+ "<literal>Single virtual packages</literal> is the number of packages with "
+ "only one package providing a particular virtual package. For example, in the "
+ "Debian system, \"X11-text-viewer\" is a virtual package, but only one "
+ "package, xless, provides \"X11-text-viewer\"."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refnamediv><refpurpose>
- #: apt-extracttemplates.1.xml:33
- msgid "Utility to extract DebConf config and templates from Debian packages"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:114
+ msgid ""
+ "<literal>Mixed virtual packages</literal> is the number of packages that "
+ "either provide a particular virtual package or have the virtual package name "
+ "as the package name. For instance, in the Debian system, \"debconf\" is both "
+ "an actual package, and provided by the debconf-tiny package."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-extracttemplates.1.xml:39
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:121
msgid ""
- "<command>apt-extracttemplates</command> will take one or more Debian package "
- "files as input and write out (to a temporary directory) all associated "
- "config scripts and template files. For each passed in package that contains "
- "config scripts and templates, one line of output will be generated in the "
- "format:"
+ "<literal>Missing</literal> is the number of package names that were "
+ "referenced in a dependency but were not provided by any package. Missing "
+ "packages may be an evidence if a full distribution is not accessed, or if a "
+ "package (real or virtual) has been dropped from the distribution. Usually "
+ "they are referenced from Conflicts or Breaks statements."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-extracttemplates.1.xml:44
- msgid "package version template-file config-script"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:128
+ msgid ""
+ "<literal>Total distinct</literal> versions is the number of package versions "
+ "found in the cache; this value is therefore at least equal to the number of "
+ "total package names. If more than one distribution is being accessed (for "
+ "instance, \"stable\" and \"unstable\"), this value can be considerably "
+ "larger than the number of total package names."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-extracttemplates.1.xml:45
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:135
msgid ""
- "template-file and config-script are written to the temporary directory "
- "specified by the <option>-t</option> or <option>--tempdir</option> "
- "(<literal>APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir</literal>) directory, with "
- "filenames of the form <filename>package.template.XXXX</filename> and "
- "<filename>package.config.XXXX</filename>"
+ "<literal>Total dependencies</literal> is the number of dependency "
+ "relationships claimed by all of the packages in the cache."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-extracttemplates.1.xml:58
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:143
msgid ""
- "Temporary directory in which to write extracted debconf template files and "
- "config scripts. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir</literal>"
+ "<literal>showsrc</literal> displays all the source package records that "
+ "match the given package names. All versions are shown, as well as all "
+ "records that declare the name to be a binary package."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-extracttemplates.1.xml:75
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:149
msgid ""
- "<command>apt-extracttemplates</command> returns zero on normal operation, "
- "decimal 100 on error."
+ "<literal>dump</literal> shows a short listing of every package in the "
+ "cache. It is primarily for debugging."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refnamediv><refpurpose>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:33
- msgid "Utility to generate index files"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:154
+ msgid ""
+ "<literal>dumpavail</literal> prints out an available list to stdout. This is "
+ "suitable for use with &dpkg; and is used by the &dselect; method."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:39
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:159
msgid ""
- "<command>apt-ftparchive</command> is the command line tool that generates "
- "the index files that APT uses to access a distribution source. The index "
- "files should be generated on the origin site based on the content of that "
- "site."
+ "<literal>unmet</literal> displays a summary of all unmet dependencies in the "
+ "package cache."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:43
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:164
msgid ""
- "<command>apt-ftparchive</command> is a superset of the &dpkg-scanpackages; "
- "program, incorporating its entire functionality via the "
- "<literal>packages</literal> command. It also contains a contents file "
- "generator, <literal>contents</literal>, and an elaborate means to 'script' "
- "the generation process for a complete archive."
+ "<literal>show</literal> performs a function similar to <command>dpkg "
+ "--print-avail</command>; it displays the package records for the named "
+ "packages."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:49
- msgid ""
- "Internally <command>apt-ftparchive</command> can make use of binary "
- "databases to cache the contents of a .deb file and it does not rely on any "
- "external programs aside from &gzip;. When doing a full generate it "
- "automatically performs file-change checks and builds the desired compressed "
- "output files."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><term><option><replaceable>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:169
+ msgid "&synopsis-regex;"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:60
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:170
msgid ""
- "The packages command generates a package file from a directory tree. It "
- "takes the given directory and recursively searches it for .deb files, "
- "emitting a package record to stdout for each. This command is approximately "
- "equivalent to &dpkg-scanpackages;."
+ "<literal>search</literal> performs a full text search on all available "
+ "package lists for the POSIX regex pattern given, see ®ex;. It searches "
+ "the package names and the descriptions for an occurrence of the regular "
+ "expression and prints out the package name and the short description, "
+ "including virtual package names. If <option>--full</option> is given then "
+ "output identical to <literal>show</literal> is produced for each matched "
+ "package, and if <option>--names-only</option> is given then the long "
+ "description is not searched, only the package name is."
msgstr ""
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- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:65 apt-ftparchive.1.xml:89
- msgid "The option <option>--db</option> can be used to specify a binary caching DB."
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:181
+ msgid ""
+ "Separate arguments can be used to specify multiple search patterns that are "
+ "and'ed together."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:70
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:186
msgid ""
- "The <literal>sources</literal> command generates a source index file from a "
- "directory tree. It takes the given directory and recursively searches it "
- "for .dsc files, emitting a source record to stdout for each. This command is "
- "approximately equivalent to &dpkg-scansources;."
+ "<literal>depends</literal> shows a listing of each dependency a package has "
+ "and all the possible other packages that can fulfill that dependency."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:75
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:191
msgid ""
- "If an override file is specified then a source override file will be looked "
- "for with an extension of .src. The --source-override option can be used to "
- "change the source override file that will be used."
+ "<literal>rdepends</literal> shows a listing of each reverse dependency a "
+ "package has."
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:195
+ msgid "<optional><replaceable>&synopsis-prefix;</replaceable></optional>"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:82
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:196
msgid ""
- "The <literal>contents</literal> command generates a contents file from a "
- "directory tree. It takes the given directory and recursively searches it for "
- ".deb files, and reads the file list from each file. It then sorts and writes "
- "to stdout the list of files matched to packages. Directories are not written "
- "to the output. If multiple packages own the same file then each package is "
- "separated by a comma in the output."
+ "This command prints the name of each package APT knows. The optional "
+ "argument is a prefix match to filter the name list. The output is suitable "
+ "for use in a shell tab complete function and the output is generated "
+ "extremely quickly. This command is best used with the "
+ "<option>--generate</option> option."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:94
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:201
msgid ""
- "The <literal>release</literal> command generates a Release file from a "
- "directory tree. It recursively searches the given directory for uncompressed "
- "<filename>Packages</filename> and <filename>Sources</filename> files and the "
- "ones compressed with <command>gzip</command>, <command>bzip2</command> or "
- "<command>lzma</command> as well as <filename>Release</filename> and "
- "<filename>md5sum.txt</filename> files by default "
- "(<literal>APT::FTPArchive::Release::Default-Patterns</literal>). Additional "
- "filename patterns can be added by listing them in "
- "<literal>APT::FTPArchive::Release::Patterns</literal>. It then writes to "
- "stdout a Release file containing a MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 digest for each "
- "file."
+ "Note that a package which APT knows of is not necessarily available to "
+ "download, installable or installed, e.g. virtual packages are also listed in "
+ "the generated list."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:104
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:207
msgid ""
- "Values for the additional metadata fields in the Release file are taken from "
- "the corresponding variables under "
- "<literal>APT::FTPArchive::Release</literal>, "
- "e.g. <literal>APT::FTPArchive::Release::Origin</literal>. The supported "
- "fields are: <literal>Origin</literal>, <literal>Label</literal>, "
- "<literal>Suite</literal>, <literal>Version</literal>, "
- "<literal>Codename</literal>, <literal>Date</literal>, "
- "<literal>Valid-Until</literal>, <literal>Architectures</literal>, "
- "<literal>Components</literal>, <literal>Description</literal>."
+ "<literal>dotty</literal> takes a list of packages on the command line and "
+ "generates output suitable for use by dotty from the <ulink "
+ "url=\"http://www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz/\">GraphViz</ulink> "
+ "package. The result will be a set of nodes and edges representing the "
+ "relationships between the packages. By default the given packages will trace "
+ "out all dependent packages; this can produce a very large graph. To limit "
+ "the output to only the packages listed on the command line, set the "
+ "<literal>APT::Cache::GivenOnly</literal> option."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:117
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:216
msgid ""
- "The <literal>generate</literal> command is designed to be runnable from a "
- "cron script and builds indexes according to the given config file. The "
- "config language provides a flexible means of specifying which index files "
- "are built from which directories, as well as providing a simple means of "
- "maintaining the required settings."
+ "The resulting nodes will have several shapes; normal packages are boxes, "
+ "pure virtual packages are triangles, mixed virtual packages are diamonds, "
+ "missing packages are hexagons. Orange boxes mean recursion was stopped (leaf "
+ "packages), blue lines are pre-depends, green lines are conflicts."
msgstr ""
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- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:126
- msgid ""
- "The <literal>clean</literal> command tidies the databases used by the given "
- "configuration file by removing any records that are no longer necessary."
- msgstr ""
-
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:132
- msgid "The Generate Configuration"
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:221
+ msgid "Caution, dotty cannot graph larger sets of packages."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:134
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:225
msgid ""
- "The <literal>generate</literal> command uses a configuration file to "
- "describe the archives that are going to be generated. It follows the typical "
- "ISC configuration format as seen in ISC tools like bind 8 and dhcpd. "
- "&apt-conf; contains a description of the syntax. Note that the generate "
- "configuration is parsed in sectional manner, but &apt-conf; is parsed in a "
- "tree manner. This only effects how the scope tag is handled."
- msgstr ""
-
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:142
- msgid "The generate configuration has 4 separate sections, each described below."
+ "The same as <literal>dotty</literal>, only for xvcg from the <ulink "
+ "url=\"http://rw4.cs.uni-sb.de/users/sander/html/gsvcg1.html\">VCG "
+ "tool</ulink>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:144
- msgid "<literal>Dir</literal> Section"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:229
+ msgid "<optional><replaceable>&synopsis-pkg;</replaceable>…</optional>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:146
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:230
msgid ""
- "The <literal>Dir</literal> section defines the standard directories needed "
- "to locate the files required during the generation process. These "
- "directories are prepended certain relative paths defined in later sections "
- "to produce a complete an absolute path."
+ "<literal>policy</literal> is meant to help debug issues relating to the "
+ "preferences file. With no arguments it will print out the priorities of each "
+ "source. Otherwise it prints out detailed information about the priority "
+ "selection of the named package."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:153
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:237
msgid ""
- "Specifies the root of the FTP archive, in a standard Debian configuration "
- "this is the directory that contains the <filename>ls-LR</filename> and dist "
- "nodes."
+ "<literal>apt-cache</literal>'s <literal>madison</literal> command attempts "
+ "to mimic the output format and a subset of the functionality of the Debian "
+ "archive management tool, <literal>madison</literal>. It displays available "
+ "versions of a package in a tabular format. Unlike the original "
+ "<literal>madison</literal>, it can only display information for the "
+ "architecture for which APT has retrieved package lists "
+ "(<literal>APT::Architecture</literal>)."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:160
- msgid "Specifies the location of the override files."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:253
+ msgid ""
+ "Select the file to store the package cache. The package cache is the primary "
+ "cache used by all operations. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>Dir::Cache::pkgcache</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:165
- msgid "Specifies the location of the cache files"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:259
+ msgid ""
+ "Select the file to store the source cache. The source is used only by "
+ "<literal>gencaches</literal> and it stores a parsed version of the package "
+ "information from remote sources. When building the package cache the source "
+ "cache is used to avoid reparsing all of the package files. Configuration "
+ "Item: <literal>Dir::Cache::srcpkgcache</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:170
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:267
msgid ""
- "Specifies the location of the file list files, if the "
- "<literal>FileList</literal> setting is used below."
+ "Quiet; produces output suitable for logging, omitting progress indicators. "
+ "More q's will produce more quietness up to a maximum of 2. You can also use "
+ "<option>-q=#</option> to set the quietness level, overriding the "
+ "configuration file. Configuration Item: <literal>quiet</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:176
- msgid "<literal>Default</literal> Section"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:274
+ msgid ""
+ "Print only important dependencies; for use with <literal>unmet</literal> and "
+ "<literal>depends</literal>. Causes only Depends and Pre-Depends relations to "
+ "be printed. Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Cache::Important</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:178
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:288
msgid ""
- "The <literal>Default</literal> section specifies default values, and "
- "settings that control the operation of the generator. Other sections may "
- "override these defaults with a per-section setting."
+ "Per default the <literal>depends</literal> and <literal>rdepends</literal> "
+ "print all dependencies. This can be tweaked with these flags which will omit "
+ "the specified dependency type. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::Cache::Show<replaceable>DependencyType</replaceable></literal> "
+ "e.g. <literal>APT::Cache::ShowRecommends</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:184
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:295
msgid ""
- "Sets the default compression schemes to use for the Package index files. It "
- "is a string that contains a space separated list of at least one of: '.' (no "
- "compression), 'gzip' and 'bzip2'. The default for all compression schemes is "
- "'. gzip'."
+ "Print full package records when searching. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::Cache::ShowFull</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:192
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:300
msgid ""
- "Sets the default list of file extensions that are package files. This "
- "defaults to '.deb'."
+ "Print full records for all available versions. This is the default; to turn "
+ "it off, use <option>--no-all-versions</option>. If "
+ "<option>--no-all-versions</option> is specified, only the candidate version "
+ "will be displayed (the one which would be selected for installation). This "
+ "option is only applicable to the <literal>show</literal> command. "
+ "Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Cache::AllVersions</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:198
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:309
msgid ""
- "This is similar to <literal>Packages::Compress</literal> except that it "
- "controls the compression for the Sources files."
+ "Perform automatic package cache regeneration, rather than use the cache as "
+ "it is. This is the default; to turn it off, use "
+ "<option>--no-generate</option>. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::Cache::Generate</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:204
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:315
msgid ""
- "Sets the default list of file extensions that are source files. This "
- "defaults to '.dsc'."
+ "Only search on the package names, not the long descriptions. Configuration "
+ "Item: <literal>APT::Cache::NamesOnly</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:210
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:320
msgid ""
- "This is similar to <literal>Packages::Compress</literal> except that it "
- "controls the compression for the Contents files."
+ "Make <literal>pkgnames</literal> print all names, including virtual packages "
+ "and missing dependencies. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::Cache::AllNames</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:216
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:326
msgid ""
- "This is similar to <literal>Packages::Compress</literal> except that it "
- "controls the compression for the Translation-en master file."
+ "Make <literal>depends</literal> and <literal>rdepends</literal> recursive so "
+ "that all packages mentioned are printed once. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::Cache::RecurseDepends</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:222
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:333
msgid ""
- "Specifies the number of kilobytes to delink (and replace with hard links) "
- "per run. This is used in conjunction with the per-section "
- "<literal>External-Links</literal> setting."
+ "Limit the output of <literal>depends</literal> and "
+ "<literal>rdepends</literal> to packages which are currently installed. "
+ "Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Cache::Installed</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:229
- msgid ""
- "Specifies the mode of all created index files. It defaults to 0644. All "
- "index files are set to this mode with no regard to the umask."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:351
+ msgid "&apt-conf;, &sources-list;, &apt-get;"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:236 apt-ftparchive.1.xml:382
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-cache.8.xml:356
msgid ""
- "Sets if long descriptions should be included in the Packages file or split "
- "out into a master Translation-en file."
+ "<command>apt-cache</command> returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 "
+ "on error."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:242
- msgid "<literal>TreeDefault</literal> Section"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refnamediv><refpurpose>
+ #: apt-key.8.xml:32
+ msgid "APT key management utility"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:244
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-key.8.xml:39
msgid ""
- "Sets defaults specific to <literal>Tree</literal> sections. All of these "
- "variables are substitution variables and have the strings $(DIST), "
- "$(SECTION) and $(ARCH) replaced with their respective values."
+ "<command>apt-key</command> is used to manage the list of keys used by apt to "
+ "authenticate packages. Packages which have been authenticated using these "
+ "keys will be considered trusted."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:251
- msgid ""
- "Sets the number of kilobytes of contents files that are generated each "
- "day. The contents files are round-robined so that over several days they "
- "will all be rebuilt."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
+ #: apt-key.8.xml:45
+ msgid "Commands"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:258
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-key.8.xml:50
msgid ""
- "Controls the number of days a contents file is allowed to be checked without "
- "changing. If this limit is passed the mtime of the contents file is "
- "updated. This case can occur if the package file is changed in such a way "
- "that does not result in a new contents file [override edit for instance]. A "
- "hold off is allowed in hopes that new .debs will be installed, requiring a "
- "new file anyhow. The default is 10, the units are in days."
+ "Add a new key to the list of trusted keys. The key is read from the "
+ "filename given with the parameter &synopsis-param-filename; or if the "
+ "filename is <literal>-</literal> from standard input."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:269
- msgid ""
- "Sets the top of the .deb directory tree. Defaults to "
- "<filename>$(DIST)/$(SECTION)/binary-$(ARCH)/</filename>"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-key.8.xml:63
+ msgid "Remove a key from the list of trusted keys."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:275
- msgid ""
- "Sets the top of the source package directory tree. Defaults to "
- "<filename>$(DIST)/$(SECTION)/source/</filename>"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-key.8.xml:74
+ msgid "Output the key &synopsis-param-keyid; to standard output."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:281
- msgid ""
- "Sets the output Packages file. Defaults to "
- "<filename>$(DIST)/$(SECTION)/binary-$(ARCH)/Packages</filename>"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-key.8.xml:85
+ msgid "Output all trusted keys to standard output."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:287
- msgid ""
- "Sets the output Sources file. Defaults to "
- "<filename>$(DIST)/$(SECTION)/source/Sources</filename>"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-key.8.xml:96
+ msgid "List trusted keys."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:293
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-key.8.xml:107
+ msgid "List fingerprints of trusted keys."
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-key.8.xml:118
msgid ""
- "Set the output Translation-en master file with the long descriptions if they "
- "should be not included in the Packages file. Defaults to "
- "<filename>$(DIST)/$(SECTION)/i18n/Translation-en</filename>"
+ "Pass advanced options to gpg. With adv --recv-key you can download the "
+ "public key."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:300
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-key.8.xml:130
msgid ""
- "Sets the path prefix that causes a symlink to be considered an internal link "
- "instead of an external link. Defaults to "
- "<filename>$(DIST)/$(SECTION)/</filename>"
+ "Update the local keyring with the archive keyring and remove from the local "
+ "keyring the archive keys which are no longer valid. The archive keyring is "
+ "shipped in the <literal>archive-keyring</literal> package of your "
+ "distribution, e.g. the <literal>debian-archive-keyring</literal> package in "
+ "Debian."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:307
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-key.8.xml:144
msgid ""
- "Sets the output Contents file. Defaults to "
- "<filename>$(DIST)/Contents-$(ARCH)</filename>. If this setting causes "
- "multiple Packages files to map onto a single Contents file (such as the "
- "default) then <command>apt-ftparchive</command> will integrate those "
- "package files together automatically."
+ "Perform an update working similarly to the <command>update</command> command "
+ "above, but get the archive keyring from a URI instead and validate it "
+ "against a master key. This requires an installed &wget; and an APT build "
+ "configured to have a server to fetch from and a master keyring to validate. "
+ "APT in Debian does not support this command, relying on "
+ "<command>update</command> instead, but Ubuntu's APT does."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:316
- msgid "Sets header file to prepend to the contents output."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
+ #: apt-key.8.xml:160 apt-cdrom.8.xml:80
+ msgid "Options"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:321
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-key.8.xml:161
msgid ""
- "Sets the binary cache database to use for this section. Multiple sections "
- "can share the same database."
+ "Note that options need to be defined before the commands described in the "
+ "previous section."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:327
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-key.8.xml:164
msgid ""
- "Specifies that instead of walking the directory tree, "
- "<command>apt-ftparchive</command> should read the list of files from the "
- "given file. Relative files names are prefixed with the archive directory."
+ "With this option it is possible to specify a particular keyring file the "
+ "command should operate on. The default is that a command is executed on the "
+ "<filename>trusted.gpg</filename> file as well as on all parts in the "
+ "<filename>trusted.gpg.d</filename> directory, though "
+ "<filename>trusted.gpg</filename> is the primary keyring which means that "
+ "e.g. new keys are added to this one."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:334
- msgid ""
- "Specifies that instead of walking the directory tree, "
- "<command>apt-ftparchive</command> should read the list of files from the "
- "given file. Relative files names are prefixed with the archive directory. "
- "This is used when processing source indexes."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
+ #: apt-key.8.xml:179
+ msgid "<filename>/etc/apt/trustdb.gpg</filename>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:342
- msgid "<literal>Tree</literal> Section"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-key.8.xml:180
+ msgid "Local trust database of archive keys."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:344
- msgid ""
- "The <literal>Tree</literal> section defines a standard Debian file tree "
- "which consists of a base directory, then multiple sections in that base "
- "directory and finally multiple Architectures in each section. The exact "
- "pathing used is defined by the <literal>Directory</literal> substitution "
- "variable."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
+ #: apt-key.8.xml:183
+ msgid "<filename>/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg</filename>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:349
- msgid ""
- "The <literal>Tree</literal> section takes a scope tag which sets the "
- "<literal>$(DIST)</literal> variable and defines the root of the tree (the "
- "path is prefixed by <literal>ArchiveDir</literal>). Typically this is a "
- "setting such as <filename>dists/&stable-codename;</filename>."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-key.8.xml:184
+ msgid "Keyring of Debian archive trusted keys."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:354
- msgid ""
- "All of the settings defined in the <literal>TreeDefault</literal> section "
- "can be use in a <literal>Tree</literal> section as well as three new "
- "variables."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
+ #: apt-key.8.xml:187
+ msgid "<filename>/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-removed-keys.gpg</filename>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><programlisting>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:360
- #, no-wrap
- msgid ""
- "for i in Sections do \n"
- " for j in Architectures do\n"
- " Generate for DIST=scope SECTION=i ARCH=j\n"
- " "
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-key.8.xml:188
+ msgid "Keyring of Debian archive removed trusted keys."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:357
- msgid ""
- "When processing a <literal>Tree</literal> section "
- "<command>apt-ftparchive</command> performs an operation similar to: "
- "<placeholder type=\"programlisting\" id=\"0\"/>"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-key.8.xml:197
+ msgid "&apt-get;, &apt-secure;"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:368
- msgid ""
- "This is a space separated list of sections which appear under the "
- "distribution, typically this is something like <literal>main contrib "
- "non-free</literal>"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refnamediv><refpurpose>
+ #: apt-mark.8.xml:33
+ msgid "mark/unmark a package as being automatically-installed"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:375
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-mark.8.xml:39
msgid ""
- "This is a space separated list of all the architectures that appear under "
- "search section. The special architecture 'source' is used to indicate that "
- "this tree has a source archive."
+ "<command>apt-mark</command> will change whether a package has been marked as "
+ "being automatically installed."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:388
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-mark.8.xml:43
msgid ""
- "Sets the binary override file. The override file contains section, priority "
- "and maintainer address information."
+ "When you request that a package is installed, and as a result other packages "
+ "are installed to satisfy its dependencies, the dependencies are marked as "
+ "being automatically installed. Once these automatically installed packages "
+ "are no longer depended on by any manually installed packages, they will be "
+ "removed by e.g. <command>apt-get</command> or <command>aptitude</command>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:394
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-mark.8.xml:52
msgid ""
- "Sets the source override file. The override file contains section "
- "information."
+ "<literal>auto</literal> is used to mark a package as being automatically "
+ "installed, which will cause the package to be removed when no more manually "
+ "installed packages depend on this package."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:400 apt-ftparchive.1.xml:446
- msgid "Sets the binary extra override file."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-mark.8.xml:60
+ msgid ""
+ "<literal>manual</literal> is used to mark a package as being manually "
+ "installed, which will prevent the package from being automatically removed "
+ "if no other packages depend on it."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:405 apt-ftparchive.1.xml:451
- msgid "Sets the source extra override file."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-mark.8.xml:68
+ msgid ""
+ "<literal>hold</literal> is used to mark a package as held back, which will "
+ "prevent the package from being automatically installed, upgraded or "
+ "removed. The command is only a wrapper around <command>dpkg "
+ "--set-selections</command> and the state is therefore maintained by &dpkg; "
+ "and not affected by the <option>--file</option> option."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:410
- msgid "<literal>BinDirectory</literal> Section"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-mark.8.xml:78
+ msgid ""
+ "<literal>unhold</literal> is used to cancel a previously set hold on a "
+ "package to allow all actions again."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:412
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-mark.8.xml:84
msgid ""
- "The <literal>bindirectory</literal> section defines a binary directory tree "
- "with no special structure. The scope tag specifies the location of the "
- "binary directory and the settings are similar to the <literal>Tree</literal> "
- "section with no substitution variables or "
- "<literal>Section</literal><literal>Architecture</literal> settings."
+ "<literal>showauto</literal> is used to print a list of automatically "
+ "installed packages with each package on a new line. All automatically "
+ "installed packages will be listed if no package is given. If packages are "
+ "given only those which are automatically installed will be shown."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:420
- msgid "Sets the Packages file output."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-mark.8.xml:92
+ msgid ""
+ "<literal>showmanual</literal> can be used in the same way as "
+ "<literal>showauto</literal> except that it will print a list of manually "
+ "installed packages instead."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:425
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-mark.8.xml:99
msgid ""
- "Sets the Sources file output. At least one of <literal>Packages</literal> or "
- "<literal>Sources</literal> is required."
+ "<literal>showhold</literal> is used to print a list of packages on hold in "
+ "the same way as for the other show commands."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:431
- msgid "Sets the Contents file output. (optional)"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-mark.8.xml:115
+ msgid ""
+ "Read/Write package stats from the filename given with the parameter "
+ "&synopsis-param-filename; instead of from the default location, which is "
+ "<filename>extended_status</filename> in the directory defined by the "
+ "Configuration Item: <literal>Dir::State</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:436
- msgid "Sets the binary override file."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-mark.8.xml:136
+ msgid ""
+ "<command>apt-mark</command> returns zero on normal operation, non-zero on "
+ "error."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:441
- msgid "Sets the source override file."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refnamediv><refpurpose>
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:47
+ msgid "Archive authentication support for APT"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:456
- msgid "Sets the cache DB."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:52
+ msgid ""
+ "Starting with version 0.6, <command>apt</command> contains code that does "
+ "signature checking of the Release file for all archives. This ensures that "
+ "packages in the archive can't be modified by people who have no access to "
+ "the Release file signing key."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:461
- msgid "Appends a path to all the output paths."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:60
+ msgid ""
+ "If a package comes from a archive without a signature, or with a signature "
+ "that apt does not have a key for, that package is considered untrusted, and "
+ "installing it will result in a big warning. <command>apt-get</command> will "
+ "currently only warn for unsigned archives; future releases might force all "
+ "sources to be verified before downloading packages from them."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:466
- msgid "Specifies the file list file."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:69
+ msgid ""
+ "The package frontends &apt-get;, &aptitude; and &synaptic; support this new "
+ "authentication feature."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:473
- msgid "The Binary Override File"
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:74
+ msgid "Trusted archives"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:474
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:77
msgid ""
- "The binary override file is fully compatible with &dpkg-scanpackages;. It "
- "contains 4 fields separated by spaces. The first field is the package name, "
- "the second is the priority to force that package to, the third is the the "
- "section to force that package to and the final field is the maintainer "
- "permutation field."
- msgstr ""
-
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><literallayout>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:480
- #, no-wrap
- msgid "old [// oldn]* => new"
- msgstr ""
-
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><literallayout>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:482
- #, no-wrap
- msgid "new"
+ "The chain of trust from an apt archive to the end user is made up of several "
+ "steps. <command>apt-secure</command> is the last step in this chain; "
+ "trusting an archive does not mean that you trust its packages not to contain "
+ "malicious code, but means that you trust the archive maintainer. It's the "
+ "archive maintainer's responsibility to ensure that the archive's integrity "
+ "is preserved."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:479
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:85
msgid ""
- "The general form of the maintainer field is: <placeholder "
- "type=\"literallayout\" id=\"0\"/> or simply, <placeholder "
- "type=\"literallayout\" id=\"1\"/> The first form allows a double-slash "
- "separated list of old email addresses to be specified. If any of those are "
- "found then new is substituted for the maintainer field. The second form "
- "unconditionally substitutes the maintainer field."
+ "apt-secure does not review signatures at a package level. If you require "
+ "tools to do this you should look at <command>debsig-verify</command> and "
+ "<command>debsign</command> (provided in the debsig-verify and devscripts "
+ "packages respectively)."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:490
- msgid "The Source Override File"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:92
+ msgid ""
+ "The chain of trust in Debian starts when a maintainer uploads a new package "
+ "or a new version of a package to the Debian archive. In order to become "
+ "effective, this upload needs to be signed by a key contained in the Debian "
+ "Maintainers keyring (available in the debian-keyring package). Maintainers' "
+ "keys are signed by other maintainers following pre-established procedures to "
+ "ensure the identity of the key holder."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:492
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:102
msgid ""
- "The source override file is fully compatible with &dpkg-scansources;. It "
- "contains 2 fields separated by spaces. The first fields is the source "
- "package name, the second is the section to assign it."
+ "Once the uploaded package is verified and included in the archive, the "
+ "maintainer signature is stripped off, and checksums of the package are "
+ "computed and put in the Packages file. The checksums of all of the Packages "
+ "files are then computed and put into the Release file. The Release file is "
+ "then signed by the archive key for this Debian release, and distributed "
+ "alongside the packages and the Packages files on Debian mirrors. The keys "
+ "are in the Debian archive keyring available in the "
+ "<package>debian-archive-keyring</package> package."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:497
- msgid "The Extra Override File"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:113
+ msgid ""
+ "End users can check the signature of the Release file, extract a checksum of "
+ "a package from it and compare it with the checksum of the package they "
+ "downloaded by hand - or rely on APT doing this automatically."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:499
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:118
msgid ""
- "The extra override file allows any arbitrary tag to be added or replaced in "
- "the output. It has 3 columns, the first is the package, the second is the "
- "tag and the remainder of the line is the new value."
+ "Notice that this is distinct from checking signatures on a per package "
+ "basis. It is designed to prevent two possible attacks:"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:510
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
itemizedlist><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:123
msgid ""
- "Generate the given checksum. These options default to on, when turned off "
- "the generated index files will not have the checksum fields where possible. "
- "Configuration Items: "
- "<literal>APT::FTPArchive::<replaceable>Checksum</replaceable></literal> and "
- "<literal>APT::FTPArchive::<replaceable>Index</replaceable>::<replaceable>Checksum</replaceable></literal> "
- "where <literal><replaceable>Index</replaceable></literal> can be "
- "<literal>Packages</literal>, <literal>Sources</literal> or "
- "<literal>Release</literal> and "
- "<literal><replaceable>Checksum</replaceable></literal> can be "
- "<literal>MD5</literal>, <literal>SHA1</literal> or "
- "<literal>SHA256</literal>."
+ "<literal>Network \"man in the middle\" attacks</literal>. Without signature "
+ "checking, malicious agents can introduce themselves into the package "
+ "download process and provide malicious software either by controlling a "
+ "network element (router, switch, etc.) or by redirecting traffic to a rogue "
+ "server (through ARP or DNS spoofing attacks)."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:521
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
itemizedlist><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:131
msgid ""
- "Use a binary caching DB. This has no effect on the generate command. "
- "Configuration Item: <literal>APT::FTPArchive::DB</literal>."
+ "<literal>Mirror network compromise</literal>. Without signature checking, a "
+ "malicious agent can compromise a mirror host and modify the files in it to "
+ "propagate malicious software to all users downloading packages from that "
+ "host."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:527
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:138
msgid ""
- "Quiet; produces output suitable for logging, omitting progress indicators. "
- "More q's will produce more quiet up to a maximum of 2. You can also use "
- "<option>-q=#</option> to set the quiet level, overriding the configuration "
- "file. Configuration Item: <literal>quiet</literal>."
+ "However, it does not defend against a compromise of the Debian master server "
+ "itself (which signs the packages) or against a compromise of the key used to "
+ "sign the Release files. In any case, this mechanism can complement a "
+ "per-package signature."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:535
- msgid ""
- "Perform Delinking. If the <literal>External-Links</literal> setting is used "
- "then this option actually enables delinking of the files. It defaults to on "
- "and can be turned off with <option>--no-delink</option>. Configuration "
- "Item: <literal>APT::FTPArchive::DeLinkAct</literal>."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:144
+ msgid "User configuration"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:543
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:146
msgid ""
- "Perform contents generation. When this option is set and package indexes are "
- "being generated with a cache DB then the file listing will also be extracted "
- "and stored in the DB for later use. When using the generate command this "
- "option also allows the creation of any Contents files. The default is on. "
- "Configuration Item: <literal>APT::FTPArchive::Contents</literal>."
+ "<command>apt-key</command> is the program that manages the list of keys used "
+ "by apt. It can be used to add or remove keys, although an installation of "
+ "this release will automatically contain the default Debian archive signing "
+ "keys used in the Debian package repositories."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:553
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:153
msgid ""
- "Select the source override file to use with the <literal>sources</literal> "
- "command. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::FTPArchive::SourceOverride</literal>."
+ "In order to add a new key you need to first download it (you should make "
+ "sure you are using a trusted communication channel when retrieving it), add "
+ "it with <command>apt-key</command> and then run <command>apt-get "
+ "update</command> so that apt can download and verify the "
+ "<filename>InRelease</filename> or <filename>Release.gpg</filename> files "
+ "from the archives you have configured."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:559
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:162
+ msgid "Archive configuration"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:164
msgid ""
- "Make the caching databases read only. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::FTPArchive::ReadOnlyDB</literal>."
+ "If you want to provide archive signatures in an archive under your "
+ "maintenance you have to:"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:564
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
itemizedlist><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:169
msgid ""
- "Accept in the <literal>packages</literal> and <literal>contents</literal> "
- "commands only package files matching <literal>*_arch.deb</literal> or "
- "<literal>*_all.deb</literal> instead of all package files in the given "
- "path. Configuration Item: <literal>APT::FTPArchive::Architecture</literal>."
+ "<emphasis>Create a toplevel Release file</emphasis>, if it does not exist "
+ "already. You can do this by running <command>apt-ftparchive "
+ "release</command> (provided in apt-utils)."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:572
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
itemizedlist><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:174
msgid ""
- "&apt-ftparchive; caches as much as possible of metadata in a cachedb. If "
- "packages are recompiled and/or republished with the same version again, this "
- "will lead to problems as the now outdated cached metadata like size and "
- "checksums will be used. With this option enabled this will no longer happen "
- "as it will be checked if the file was changed. Note that this option is set "
- "to \"<literal>false</literal>\" by default as it is not recommend to upload "
- "multiply versions/builds of a package with the same versionnumber, so in "
- "theory nobody will have these problems and therefore all these extra checks "
- "are useless."
+ "<emphasis>Sign it</emphasis>. You can do this by running <command>gpg "
+ "--clearsign -o InRelease Release</command> and <command>gpg -abs -o "
+ "Release.gpg Release</command>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:584
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
itemizedlist><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:178
msgid ""
- "This configuration option defaults to \"<literal>true</literal>\" and should "
- "only be set to <literal>\"false\"</literal> if the Archive generated with "
- "&apt-ftparchive; also provides <filename>Translation</filename> files. Note "
- "that the <filename>Translation-en</filename> master file can only be created "
- "in the generate command."
+ "<emphasis>Publish the key fingerprint</emphasis>, that way your users will "
+ "know what key they need to import in order to authenticate the files in the "
+ "archive."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:596 apt.conf.5.xml:1112 apt_preferences.5.xml:545 sources.list.5.xml:211
- msgid "Examples"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:185
+ msgid ""
+ "Whenever the contents of the archive change (new packages are added or "
+ "removed) the archive maintainer has to follow the first two steps outlined "
+ "above."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><programlisting>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:602
- #, no-wrap
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:193
msgid ""
- "<command>apt-ftparchive</command> packages "
- "<replaceable>directory</replaceable> | <command>gzip</command> > "
- "<filename>Packages.gz</filename>\n"
+ "&apt-conf;, &apt-get;, &sources-list;, &apt-key;, &apt-ftparchive;, "
+ "&debsign; &debsig-verify;, &gpg;"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:598
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:197
msgid ""
- "To create a compressed Packages file for a directory containing binary "
- "packages (.deb): <placeholder type=\"programlisting\" id=\"0\"/>"
+ "For more background information you might want to review the <ulink "
+ "url=\"http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch7\">Debian "
+ "Security Infrastructure</ulink> chapter of the Securing Debian Manual "
+ "(available also in the harden-doc package) and the <ulink "
+ "url=\"http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/strong_distro.html\" >Strong "
+ "Distribution HOWTO</ulink> by V. Alex Brennen."
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:210
+ msgid "Manpage Authors"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:612
+ #: apt-secure.8.xml:212
msgid ""
- "<command>apt-ftparchive</command> returns zero on normal operation, decimal "
- "100 on error."
+ "This man-page is based on the work of Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Isaac "
+ "Jones, Colin Walters, Florian Weimer and Michael Vogt."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refnamediv><refpurpose>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:33
- msgid "APT package handling utility -- command-line interface"
+ #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:32
+ msgid "APT CD-ROM management utility"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:39
+ #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:38
msgid ""
- "<command>apt-get</command> is the command-line tool for handling packages, "
- "and may be considered the user's \"back-end\" to other tools using the APT "
- "library. Several \"front-end\" interfaces exist, such as &dselect;, "
- "&aptitude;, &synaptic; and &wajig;."
+ "<command>apt-cdrom</command> is used to add a new CD-ROM to APT's list of "
+ "available sources. <command>apt-cdrom</command> takes care of determining "
+ "the structure of the disc as well as correcting for several possible "
+ "mis-burns and verifying the index files."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:49
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:45
msgid ""
- "<literal>update</literal> is used to resynchronize the package index files "
- "from their sources. The indexes of available packages are fetched from the "
- "location(s) specified in <filename>/etc/apt/sources.list</filename>. For "
- "example, when using a Debian archive, this command retrieves and scans the "
- "<filename>Packages.gz</filename> files, so that information about new and "
- "updated packages is available. An <literal>update</literal> should always be "
- "performed before an <literal>upgrade</literal> or "
- "<literal>dist-upgrade</literal>. Please be aware that the overall progress "
- "meter will be incorrect as the size of the package files cannot be known in "
- "advance."
+ "It is necessary to use <command>apt-cdrom</command> to add CDs to the APT "
+ "system; it cannot be done by hand. Furthermore each disc in a multi-CD set "
+ "must be inserted and scanned separately to account for possible mis-burns."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:61
+ #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:56
msgid ""
- "<literal>upgrade</literal> is used to install the newest versions of all "
- "packages currently installed on the system from the sources enumerated in "
- "<filename>/etc/apt/sources.list</filename>. Packages currently installed "
- "with new versions available are retrieved and upgraded; under no "
- "circumstances are currently installed packages removed, or packages not "
- "already installed retrieved and installed. New versions of currently "
- "installed packages that cannot be upgraded without changing the install "
- "status of another package will be left at their current version. An "
- "<literal>update</literal> must be performed first so that "
- "<command>apt-get</command> knows that new versions of packages are "
- "available."
+ "<literal>add</literal> is used to add a new disc to the source list. It will "
+ "unmount the CD-ROM device, prompt for a disc to be inserted and then proceed "
+ "to scan it and copy the index files. If the disc does not have a proper "
+ "<filename>.disk</filename> directory you will be prompted for a descriptive "
+ "title."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:74
+ #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:64
msgid ""
- "<literal>dselect-upgrade</literal> is used in conjunction with the "
- "traditional Debian packaging front-end, "
- "&dselect;. <literal>dselect-upgrade</literal> follows the changes made by "
- "&dselect; to the <literal>Status</literal> field of available packages, and "
- "performs the actions necessary to realize that state (for instance, the "
- "removal of old and the installation of new packages)."
+ "APT uses a CD-ROM ID to track which disc is currently in the drive and "
+ "maintains a database of these IDs in "
+ "<filename>&statedir;/cdroms.list</filename>"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:84
+ #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:72
msgid ""
- "<literal>dist-upgrade</literal> in addition to performing the function of "
- "<literal>upgrade</literal>, also intelligently handles changing dependencies "
- "with new versions of packages; <command>apt-get</command> has a \"smart\" "
- "conflict resolution system, and it will attempt to upgrade the most "
- "important packages at the expense of less important ones if necessary. So, "
- "<literal>dist-upgrade</literal> command may remove some packages. The "
- "<filename>/etc/apt/sources.list</filename> file contains a list of locations "
- "from which to retrieve desired package files. See also &apt-preferences; "
- "for a mechanism for overriding the general settings for individual packages."
+ "A debugging tool to report the identity of the current disc as well as the "
+ "stored file name"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:98
+ #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:85
msgid ""
- "<literal>install</literal> is followed by one or more packages desired for "
- "installation or upgrading. Each package is a package name, not a fully "
- "qualified filename (for instance, in a Debian system, libc6 would be the "
- "argument provided, not <literal>libc6_1.9.6-2.deb</literal>). All packages "
- "required by the package(s) specified for installation will also be retrieved "
- "and installed. The <filename>/etc/apt/sources.list</filename> file is used "
- "to locate the desired packages. If a hyphen is appended to the package name "
- "(with no intervening space), the identified package will be removed if it is "
- "installed. Similarly a plus sign can be used to designate a package to "
- "install. These latter features may be used to override decisions made by "
- "apt-get's conflict resolution system."
+ "Mount point; specify the location to mount the CD-ROM. This mount point must "
+ "be listed in <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> and properly configured. "
+ "Configuration Item: <literal>Acquire::cdrom::mount</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:116
+ #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:94
msgid ""
- "A specific version of a package can be selected for installation by "
- "following the package name with an equals and the version of the package to "
- "select. This will cause that version to be located and selected for "
- "install. Alternatively a specific distribution can be selected by following "
- "the package name with a slash and the version of the distribution or the "
- "Archive name (stable, testing, unstable)."
+ "Rename a disc; change the label of a disc or override the disc's given "
+ "label. This option will cause <command>apt-cdrom</command> to prompt for a "
+ "new label. Configuration Item: <literal>APT::CDROM::Rename</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:123
+ #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:103
msgid ""
- "Both of the version selection mechanisms can downgrade packages and must be "
- "used with care."
+ "No mounting; prevent <command>apt-cdrom</command> from mounting and "
+ "unmounting the mount point. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::CDROM::NoMount</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:126
+ #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:111
msgid ""
- "This is also the target to use if you want to upgrade one or more "
- "already-installed packages without upgrading every package you have on your "
- "system. Unlike the \"upgrade\" target, which installs the newest version of "
- "all currently installed packages, \"install\" will install the newest "
- "version of only the package(s) specified. Simply provide the name of the "
- "package(s) you wish to upgrade, and if a newer version is available, it (and "
- "its dependencies, as described above) will be downloaded and installed."
+ "Fast Copy; Assume the package files are valid and do not check every "
+ "package. This option should be used only if <command>apt-cdrom</command> has "
+ "been run on this disc before and did not detect any errors. Configuration "
+ "Item: <literal>APT::CDROM::Fast</literal>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:137
+ #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:121
msgid ""
- "Finally, the &apt-preferences; mechanism allows you to create an alternative "
- "installation policy for individual packages."
+ "Thorough Package Scan; This option may be needed with some old Debian "
+ "1.1/1.2 discs that have Package files in strange places. It takes much "
+ "longer to scan the CD but will pick them all up."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:141
+ #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:132
msgid ""
- "If no package matches the given expression and the expression contains one "
- "of '.', '?' or '*' then it is assumed to be a POSIX regular expression, and "
- "it is applied to all package names in the database. Any matches are then "
- "installed (or removed). Note that matching is done by substring so 'lo.*' "
- "matches 'how-lo' and 'lowest'. If this is undesired, anchor the regular "
- "expression with a '^' or '$' character, or create a more specific regular "
- "expression."
+ "No Changes; Do not change the &sources-list; file and do not write index "
+ "files. Everything is still checked however. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::CDROM::NoAct</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:151
- msgid ""
- "<literal>remove</literal> is identical to <literal>install</literal> except "
- "that packages are removed instead of installed. Note the removing a package "
- "leaves its configuration files in system. If a plus sign is appended to the "
- "package name (with no intervening space), the identified package will be "
- "installed instead of removed."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:145
+ msgid "&apt-conf;, &apt-get;, &sources-list;"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:159
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-cdrom.8.xml:150
msgid ""
- "<literal>purge</literal> is identical to <literal>remove</literal> except "
- "that packages are removed and purged (any configuration files are deleted "
- "too)."
+ "<command>apt-cdrom</command> returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 "
+ "on error."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:164
- msgid ""
- "<literal>source</literal> causes <command>apt-get</command> to fetch source "
- "packages. APT will examine the available packages to decide which source "
- "package to fetch. It will then find and download into the current directory "
- "the newest available version of that source package while respecting the "
- "default release, set with the option "
- "<literal>APT::Default-Release</literal>, the <option>-t</option> option or "
- "per package with the <literal>pkg/release</literal> syntax, if possible."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refnamediv><refpurpose>
+ #: apt-config.8.xml:33
+ msgid "APT Configuration Query program"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:172
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-config.8.xml:39
msgid ""
- "Source packages are tracked separately from binary packages via "
- "<literal>deb-src</literal> type lines in the &sources-list; file. This means "
- "that you will need to add such a line for each repository you want to get "
- "sources from. If you don't do this you will properly get another (newer, "
- "older or none) source version than the one you have installed or could "
- "install."
+ "<command>apt-config</command> is an internal program used by various "
+ "portions of the APT suite to provide consistent configurability. It accesses "
+ "the main configuration file <filename>/etc/apt/apt.conf</filename> in a "
+ "manner that is easy to use for scripted applications."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:179
+ #: apt-config.8.xml:51
msgid ""
- "If the <option>--compile</option> option is specified then the package will "
- "be compiled to a binary .deb using <command>dpkg-buildpackage</command> for "
- "the architecture as defined by the <command>--host-architecture</command> "
- "option. If <option>--download-only</option> is specified then the source "
- "package will not be unpacked."
+ "shell is used to access the configuration information from a shell "
+ "script. It is given pairs of arguments, the first being a shell variable and "
+ "the second the configuration value to query. As output it lists shell "
+ "assignment commands for each value present. In a shell script it should be "
+ "used as follows:"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:186
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><informalexample><programlisting>
+ #: apt-config.8.xml:59
+ #, no-wrap
msgid ""
- "A specific source version can be retrieved by postfixing the source name "
- "with an equals and then the version to fetch, similar to the mechanism used "
- "for the package files. This enables exact matching of the source package "
- "name and version, implicitly enabling the "
- "<literal>APT::Get::Only-Source</literal> option."
+ "OPTS=\"-f\"\n"
+ "RES=`apt-config shell OPTS MyApp::options`\n"
+ "eval $RES\n"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:192
+ #: apt-config.8.xml:64
msgid ""
- "Note that source packages are not tracked like binary packages, they exist "
- "only in the current directory and are similar to downloading source tar "
- "balls."
+ "This will set the shell environment variable $OPTS to the value of "
+ "MyApp::options with a default of <option>-f</option>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:198
+ #: apt-config.8.xml:68
msgid ""
- "<literal>build-dep</literal> causes apt-get to install/remove packages in an "
- "attempt to satisfy the build dependencies for a source package. By default "
- "the dependencies are satisfied to build the package natively. If desired a "
- "host-architecture can be specified with the "
- "<option>--host-architecture</option> option instead."
+ "The configuration item may be postfixed with a /[fdbi]. f returns file "
+ "names, d returns directories, b returns true or false and i returns an "
+ "integer. Each of the returns is normalized and verified internally."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:205
- msgid ""
- "<literal>check</literal> is a diagnostic tool; it updates the package cache "
- "and checks for broken dependencies."
+ #: apt-config.8.xml:77
+ msgid "Just show the contents of the configuration space."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:210
+ #: apt-config.8.xml:90
msgid ""
- "<literal>download</literal> will download the given binary package into the "
- "current directory."
+ "Include options which have an empty value. This is the default, so use "
+ "--no-empty to remove them from the output."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:216
- msgid ""
- "<literal>clean</literal> clears out the local repository of retrieved "
- "package files. It removes everything but the lock file from "
- "<filename>&cachedir;/archives/</filename> and "
- "<filename>&cachedir;/archives/partial/</filename>. When APT is used as a "
- "&dselect; method, <literal>clean</literal> is run automatically. Those who "
- "do not use dselect will likely want to run <literal>apt-get clean</literal> "
- "from time to time to free up disk space."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><term><option><replaceable>
+ #: apt-config.8.xml:95
+ msgid "%f "%v";%n"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:226
+ #: apt-config.8.xml:96
msgid ""
- "Like <literal>clean</literal>, <literal>autoclean</literal> clears out the "
- "local repository of retrieved package files. The difference is that it only "
- "removes package files that can no longer be downloaded, and are largely "
- "useless. This allows a cache to be maintained over a long period without it "
- "growing out of control. The configuration option "
- "<literal>APT::Clean-Installed</literal> will prevent installed packages from "
- "being erased if it is set to off."
+ "Defines the output of each config option. %t will be replaced with "
+ "its individual name, %f with its full hierarchical name and %v "
+ "with its value. Use uppercase letters and special characters in the value "
+ "will be encoded to ensure that it can e.g. be safely used in a quoted-string "
+ "as defined by RFC822. Additionally %n will be replaced by a newline, "
+ "and %N by a tab. A % can be printed by using %%."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:236
- msgid ""
- "<literal>autoremove</literal> is used to remove packages that were "
- "automatically installed to satisfy dependencies for other packages and are "
- "now no longer needed."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-config.8.xml:110 apt-extracttemplates.1.xml:71 apt-sortpkgs.1.xml:64 apt-ftparchive.1.xml:608
+ msgid "&apt-conf;"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:241
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-config.8.xml:115
msgid ""
- "<literal>changelog</literal> downloads a package changelog and displays it "
- "through <command>sensible-pager</command>. The server name and base "
- "directory is defined in the <literal>APT::Changelogs::Server</literal> "
- "variable (e. g. <ulink "
- "url=\"http://packages.debian.org/changelogs\">packages.debian.org/changelogs</ulink> "
- "for Debian or <ulink "
- "url=\"http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs\">changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs</ulink> "
- "for Ubuntu). By default it displays the changelog for the version that is "
- "installed. However, you can specify the same options as for the "
- "<option>install</option> command."
+ "<command>apt-config</command> returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 "
+ "on error."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:264
- msgid ""
- "Do not consider recommended packages as a dependency for installing. "
- "Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Install-Recommends</literal>."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refentryinfo><author><contrib>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:20
+ msgid "Initial documentation of Debug::*."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:269
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refentryinfo><author><email>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:21
+ msgid "dburrows@debian.org"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refmeta><manvolnum>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:31 apt_preferences.5.xml:25 sources.list.5.xml:26
+ msgid "5"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refnamediv><refpurpose>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:38
+ msgid "Configuration file for APT"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:42
msgid ""
- "Consider suggested packages as a dependency for installing. Configuration "
- "Item: <literal>APT::Install-Suggests</literal>."
+ "<filename>/etc/apt/apt.conf</filename> is the main configuration file shared "
+ "by all the tools in the APT suite of tools, though it is by no means the "
+ "only place options can be set. The suite also shares a common command line "
+ "parser to provide a uniform environment."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:274
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
orderedlist><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:48
msgid ""
- "Download only; package files are only retrieved, not unpacked or installed. "
- "Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Get::Download-Only</literal>."
+ "When an APT tool starts up it will read the configuration files in the "
+ "following order:"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:279
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
orderedlist><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:50
msgid ""
- "Fix; attempt to correct a system with broken dependencies in place. This "
- "option, when used with install/remove, can omit any packages to permit APT "
- "to deduce a likely solution. If packages are specified, these have to "
- "completely 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 <command>dpkg --remove</command> to eliminate some "
- "of the offending packages). Use of this option together with "
- "<option>-m</option> may produce an error in some situations. Configuration "
- "Item: <literal>APT::Get::Fix-Broken</literal>."
+ "the file specified by the <envar>APT_CONFIG</envar> environment variable (if "
+ "any)"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:294
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
orderedlist><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:52
msgid ""
- "Ignore missing packages; If packages cannot be retrieved or fail the "
- "integrity check after retrieval (corrupted package files), hold back those "
- "packages and handle the result. Use of this option together with "
- "<option>-f</option> may produce an error in some situations. If a package is "
- "selected for installation (particularly if it is mentioned on the command "
- "line) and it could not be downloaded then it will be silently held back. "
- "Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Get::Fix-Missing</literal>."
+ "all files in <literal>Dir::Etc::Parts</literal> in alphanumeric ascending "
+ "order which have either no or \"<literal>conf</literal>\" as filename "
+ "extension and which only contain alphanumeric, hyphen (-), underscore (_) "
+ "and period (.) characters. Otherwise APT will print a notice that it has "
+ "ignored a file, unless that file matches a pattern in the "
+ "<literal>Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently</literal> configuration list - in which "
+ "case it will be silently ignored."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:305
- msgid ""
- "Disables downloading of packages. This is best used with "
- "<option>--ignore-missing</option> to force APT to use only the .debs it has "
- "already downloaded. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::Get::Download</literal>."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><orderedlist><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:59
+ msgid "the main configuration file specified by <literal>Dir::Etc::main</literal>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:312
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
orderedlist><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:61
msgid ""
- "Quiet; produces output suitable for logging, omitting progress indicators. "
- "More q's will produce more quiet up to a maximum of 2. You can also use "
- "<option>-q=#</option> to set the quiet level, overriding the configuration "
- "file. Note that quiet level 2 implies <option>-y</option>, you should never "
- "use -qq without a no-action modifier such as -d, --print-uris or -s as APT "
- "may decided to do something you did not expect. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>quiet</literal>."
+ "the command line options are applied to override the configuration "
+ "directives or to load even more configuration files."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:327
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:65
+ msgid "Syntax"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:66
msgid ""
- "No action; perform a simulation of events that would occur but do not "
- "actually change the system. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::Get::Simulate</literal>."
+ "The configuration file is organized in a tree with options organized into "
+ "functional groups. Option specification is given with a double colon "
+ "notation; for instance <literal>APT::Get::Assume-Yes</literal> is an option "
+ "within the APT tool group, for the Get tool. Options do not inherit from "
+ "their parent groups."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:331
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:72
msgid ""
- "Simulation run as user will deactivate locking "
- "(<literal>Debug::NoLocking</literal>) automatic. Also a notice will be "
- "displayed indicating that this is only a simulation, if the option "
- "<literal>APT::Get::Show-User-Simulation-Note</literal> is set (Default: "
- "true). Neither NoLocking nor the notice will be triggered if run as root "
- "(root should know what he is doing without further warnings by "
- "<literal>apt-get</literal>)."
+ "Syntactically the configuration language is modeled after what the ISC tools "
+ "such as bind and dhcp use. Lines starting with <literal>//</literal> are "
+ "treated as comments (ignored), as well as all text between "
+ "<literal>/*</literal> and <literal>*/</literal>, just like C/C++ comments. "
+ "Each line is of the form <literal>APT::Get::Assume-Yes \"true\";</literal>. "
+ "The quotation marks and trailing semicolon are required. The value must be "
+ "on one line, and there is no kind of string concatenation. Values must not "
+ "include backslashes or extra quotation marks. Option names are made up of "
+ "alphanumeric characters and the characters \"/-:._+\". A new scope can be "
+ "opened with curly braces, like this:"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:337
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><informalexample><programlisting>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:85
+ #, no-wrap
msgid ""
- "Simulate prints out a series of lines each one representing a dpkg "
- "operation, Configure (Conf), Remove (Remv), Unpack (Inst). Square brackets "
- "indicate broken packages and empty set of square brackets meaning breaks "
- "that are of no consequence (rare)."
+ "APT {\n"
+ " Get {\n"
+ " Assume-Yes \"true\";\n"
+ " Fix-Broken \"true\";\n"
+ " };\n"
+ "};\n"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:346
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:93
msgid ""
- "Automatic yes to prompts; assume \"yes\" as answer to all prompts and run "
- "non-interactively. If an undesirable situation, such as changing a held "
- "package, trying to install a unauthenticated package or removing an "
- "essential package occurs then <literal>apt-get</literal> will abort. "
- "Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Get::Assume-Yes</literal>."
+ "with newlines placed to make it more readable. Lists can be created by "
+ "opening a scope and including a single string enclosed in quotes followed by "
+ "a semicolon. Multiple entries can be included, separated by a semicolon."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:354
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><informalexample><programlisting>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:98
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {\"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt\";};\n"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:101
msgid ""
- "Automatic \"no\" to all prompts. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::Get::Assume-No</literal>."
+ "In general the sample configuration file in "
+ "<filename>&docdir;examples/apt.conf</filename> &configureindex; is a good "
+ "guide for how it should look."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:359
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:105
msgid ""
- "Show upgraded packages; Print out a list of all packages that are to be "
- "upgraded. Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Get::Show-Upgraded</literal>."
+ "Case is not significant in names of configuration items, so in the previous "
+ "example you could use <literal>dpkg::pre-install-pkgs</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:365
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:108
msgid ""
- "Show full versions for upgraded and installed packages. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::Get::Show-Versions</literal>."
+ "Names for the configuration items are optional if a list is defined as can "
+ "be seen in the <literal>DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs</literal> example above. If "
+ "you don't specify a name a new entry will simply add a new option to the "
+ "list. If you specify a name you can override the option in the same way as "
+ "any other option by reassigning a new value to the option."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:371
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:113
msgid ""
- "This option controls the architecture packages are built for by "
- "<command>apt-get source --compile</command> and how cross-builddependencies "
- "are satisfied. By default is it not set which means that the host "
- "architecture is the same as the build architecture (which is defined by "
- "<literal>APT::Architecture</literal>). Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::Get::Host-Architecture</literal>"
+ "Two special commands are defined: <literal>#include</literal> (which is "
+ "deprecated and not supported by alternative implementations) and "
+ "<literal>#clear</literal>. <literal>#include</literal> will include the "
+ "given file, unless the filename ends in a slash, in which case the whole "
+ "directory is included. <literal>#clear</literal> is used to erase a part of "
+ "the configuration tree. The specified element and all its descendants are "
+ "erased. (Note that these lines also need to end with a semicolon.)"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:381
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:123
msgid ""
- "Compile source packages after downloading them. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::Get::Compile</literal>."
+ "The <literal>#clear</literal> command is the only way to delete a list or a "
+ "complete scope. Reopening a scope (or using the syntax described below with "
+ "an appended <literal>::</literal>) will <emphasis>not</emphasis> override "
+ "previously written entries. Options can only be overridden by addressing a "
+ "new value to them - lists and scopes can't be overridden, only cleared."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:386
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:131
msgid ""
- "Ignore package Holds; This causes <command>apt-get</command> to ignore a "
- "hold placed on a package. This may be useful in conjunction with "
- "<literal>dist-upgrade</literal> to override a large number of undesired "
- "holds. Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Ignore-Hold</literal>."
+ "All of the APT tools take an -o option which allows an arbitrary "
+ "configuration directive to be specified on the command line. The syntax is a "
+ "full option name (<literal>APT::Get::Assume-Yes</literal> for instance) "
+ "followed by an equals sign then the new value of the option. To append a new "
+ "element to a list, add a trailing <literal>::</literal> to the name of the "
+ "list. (As you might suspect, the scope syntax can't be used on the command "
+ "line.)"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:393
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:139
+ msgid ""
+ "Note that appending items to a list using <literal>::</literal> only works "
+ "for one item per line, and that you should not use it in combination with "
+ "the scope syntax (which adds <literal>::</literal> implicitly). Using both "
+ "syntaxes together will trigger a bug which some users unfortunately depend "
+ "on: an option with the unusual name \"<literal>::</literal>\" which acts "
+ "like every other option with a name. This introduces many problems; for one "
+ "thing, users who write multiple lines in this <emphasis>wrong</emphasis> "
+ "syntax in the hope of appending to a list will achieve the opposite, as only "
+ "the last assignment for this option \"<literal>::</literal>\" will be "
+ "used. Future versions of APT will raise errors and stop working if they "
+ "encounter this misuse, so please correct such statements now while APT "
+ "doesn't explicitly complain about them."
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:154
+ msgid "The APT Group"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:155
msgid ""
- "Do not upgrade packages; When used in conjunction with "
- "<literal>install</literal>, <literal>no-upgrade</literal> will prevent "
- "packages on the command line from being upgraded if they are already "
- "installed. Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Get::Upgrade</literal>."
+ "This group of options controls general APT behavior as well as holding the "
+ "options for all of the tools."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:400
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:160
msgid ""
- "Do not install new packages; When used in conjunction with "
- "<literal>install</literal>, <literal>only-upgrade</literal> will install "
- "upgrades for already installed packages only and ignore requests to install "
- "new packages. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::Get::Only-Upgrade</literal>."
+ "System Architecture; sets the architecture to use when fetching files and "
+ "parsing package lists. The internal default is the architecture apt was "
+ "compiled for."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:408
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:167
msgid ""
- "Force yes; This is a dangerous option that will cause apt to continue "
- "without prompting if it is doing something potentially harmful. It should "
- "not be used except in very special situations. Using "
- "<literal>force-yes</literal> can potentially destroy your system! "
- "Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Get::force-yes</literal>."
+ "All Architectures the system supports. For instance, CPUs implementing the "
+ "<literal>amd64</literal> (also called <literal>x86-64</literal>) "
+ "instruction set are also able to execute binaries compiled for the "
+ "<literal>i386</literal> (<literal>x86</literal>) instruction set. This list "
+ "is used when fetching files and parsing package lists. The initial default "
+ "is always the system's native architecture "
+ "(<literal>APT::Architecture</literal>), and foreign architectures are added "
+ "to the default list when they are registered via <command>dpkg "
+ "--add-architecture</command>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:416
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:180
msgid ""
- "Instead of fetching the files to install their URIs are printed. Each URI "
- "will have the path, the destination file name, the size and the expected md5 "
- "hash. Note that the file name to write to will not always match the file "
- "name on the remote site! This also works with the <literal>source</literal> "
- "and <literal>update</literal> commands. When used with the "
- "<literal>update</literal> command the MD5 and size are not included, and it "
- "is up to the user to decompress any compressed files. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::Get::Print-URIs</literal>."
+ "Default release to install packages from if more than one version is "
+ "available. Contains release name, codename or release version. Examples: "
+ "'stable', 'testing', 'unstable', '&stable-codename;', '&testing-codename;', "
+ "'4.0', '5.0*'. See also &apt-preferences;."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:427
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:186
msgid ""
- "Use purge instead of remove for anything that would be removed. An asterisk "
- "(\"*\") will be displayed next to packages which are scheduled to be "
- "purged. <option>remove --purge</option> is equivalent to the "
- "<option>purge</option> command. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::Get::Purge</literal>."
+ "Ignore held packages; this global option causes the problem resolver to "
+ "ignore held packages in its decision making."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:435
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:191
msgid ""
- "Re-Install packages that are already installed and at the newest version. "
- "Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Get::ReInstall</literal>."
+ "Defaults to on. When turned on the autoclean feature will remove any "
+ "packages which can no longer be downloaded from the cache. If turned off "
+ "then packages that are locally installed are also excluded from cleaning - "
+ "but note that APT provides no direct means to reinstall them."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:440
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:199
msgid ""
- "This option defaults to on, use <literal>--no-list-cleanup</literal> to turn "
- "it off. When on <command>apt-get</command> will automatically manage the "
- "contents of <filename>&statedir;/lists</filename> to ensure that obsolete "
- "files are erased. The only reason to turn it off is if you frequently "
- "change your source list. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::Get::List-Cleanup</literal>."
+ "Defaults to on, which will cause APT to install essential and important "
+ "packages as soon as possible in an install/upgrade operation, in order to "
+ "limit the effect of a failing &dpkg; call. If this option is disabled, APT "
+ "treats an important package in the same way as an extra package: between the "
+ "unpacking of the package A and its configuration there can be many other "
+ "unpack or configuration calls for other unrelated packages B, C etc. If "
+ "these cause the &dpkg; call to fail (e.g. because package B's maintainer "
+ "scripts generate an error), this results in a system state in which package "
+ "A is unpacked but unconfigured - so any package depending on A is now no "
+ "longer guaranteed to work, as its dependency on A is no longer satisfied."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:451
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:211
msgid ""
- "This option controls the default input to the policy engine, it creates a "
- "default pin at priority 990 using the specified release string. This "
- "overrides the general settings in "
- "<filename>/etc/apt/preferences</filename>. Specifically pinned packages are "
- "not affected by the value of this option. In short, this option lets you "
- "have simple control over which distribution packages will be retrieved "
- "from. Some common examples might be <option>-t '2.1*'</option>, <option>-t "
- "unstable</option> or <option>-t sid</option>. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::Default-Release</literal>; see also the &apt-preferences; "
- "manual page."
+ "The immediate configuration marker is also applied in the potentially "
+ "problematic case of circular dependencies, since a dependency with the "
+ "immediate flag is equivalent to a Pre-Dependency. In theory this allows APT "
+ "to recognise a situation in which it is unable to perform immediate "
+ "configuration, abort, and suggest to the user that the option should be "
+ "temporarily deactivated in order to allow the operation to proceed. Note "
+ "the use of the word \"theory\" here; in the real world this problem has "
+ "rarely been encountered, in non-stable distribution versions, and was caused "
+ "by wrong dependencies of the package in question or by a system in an "
+ "already broken state; so you should not blindly disable this option, as the "
+ "scenario mentioned above is not the only problem it can help to prevent in "
+ "the first place."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:466
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:224
msgid ""
- "Only perform operations that are 'trivial'. Logically this can be considered "
- "related to <option>--assume-yes</option>, where "
- "<option>--assume-yes</option> will answer yes to any prompt, "
- "<option>--trivial-only</option> will answer no. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::Get::Trivial-Only</literal>."
+ "Before a big operation like <literal>dist-upgrade</literal> is run with this "
+ "option disabled you should try to explicitly <literal>install</literal> the "
+ "package APT is unable to configure immediately; but please make sure you "
+ "also report your problem to your distribution and to the APT team with the "
+ "buglink below, so they can work on improving or correcting the upgrade "
+ "process."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:473
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:235
msgid ""
- "If any packages are to be removed apt-get immediately aborts without "
- "prompting. Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Get::Remove</literal>."
+ "Never enable this option unless you <emphasis>really</emphasis> know what "
+ "you are doing. It permits APT to temporarily remove an essential package to "
+ "break a Conflicts/Conflicts or Conflicts/Pre-Depends loop between two "
+ "essential packages. <emphasis>Such a loop should never exist and is a grave "
+ "bug</emphasis>. This option will work if the essential packages are not "
+ "<command>tar</command>, <command>gzip</command>, <command>libc</command>, "
+ "<command>dpkg</command>, <command>dash</command> or anything that those "
+ "packages depend on."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:479
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:247
msgid ""
- "If the command is either <literal>install</literal> or "
- "<literal>remove</literal>, then this option acts like running "
- "<literal>autoremove</literal> command, removing the unused dependency "
- "packages. Configuration Item: <literal>APT::Get::AutomaticRemove</literal>."
+ "APT uses since version 0.7.26 a resizable memory mapped cache file to store "
+ "the available information. <literal>Cache-Start</literal> acts as a hint of "
+ "the size the cache will grow to, and is therefore the amount of memory APT "
+ "will request at startup. The default value is 20971520 bytes (~20 MB). Note "
+ "that this amount of space needs to be available for APT; otherwise it will "
+ "likely fail ungracefully, so for memory restricted devices this value should "
+ "be lowered while on systems with a lot of configured sources it should be "
+ "increased. <literal>Cache-Grow</literal> defines in bytes with the default "
+ "of 1048576 (~1 MB) how much the cache size will be increased in the event "
+ "the space defined by <literal>Cache-Start</literal> is not enough. This "
+ "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 "
+ "<literal>Cache-Limit</literal>. The default of "
+ "<literal>Cache-Limit</literal> is 0 which stands for no limit. If "
+ "<literal>Cache-Grow</literal> is set to 0 the automatic growth of the cache "
+ "is disabled."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:486
- msgid ""
- "Only has meaning for the <literal>source</literal> and "
- "<literal>build-dep</literal> commands. Indicates that the given source "
- "names are not to be mapped through the binary table. This means that if "
- "this option is specified, these commands will only accept source package "
- "names as arguments, rather than accepting binary package names and looking "
- "up the corresponding source package. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::Get::Only-Source</literal>."
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:263
+ msgid "Defines which packages are considered essential build dependencies."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:497
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:267
msgid ""
- "Download only the diff, dsc, or tar file of a source archive. Configuration "
- "Item: <literal>APT::Get::Diff-Only</literal>, "
- "<literal>APT::Get::Dsc-Only</literal>, and "
- "<literal>APT::Get::Tar-Only</literal>."
+ "The Get subsection controls the &apt-get; tool; please see its documentation "
+ "for more information about the options here."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:503
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:272
msgid ""
- "Only process architecture-dependent build-dependencies. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::Get::Arch-Only</literal>."
+ "The Cache subsection controls the &apt-cache; tool; please see its "
+ "documentation for more information about the options here."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:508
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:277
msgid ""
- "Ignore if packages can't be authenticated and don't prompt about it. This "
- "is useful for tools like pbuilder. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::Get::AllowUnauthenticated</literal>."
+ "The CDROM subsection controls the &apt-cdrom; tool; please see its "
+ "documentation for more information about the options here."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:530
- msgid ""
- "&apt-cache;, &apt-cdrom;, &dpkg;, &dselect;, &sources-list;, &apt-conf;, "
- "&apt-config;, &apt-secure;, The APT User's guide in &guidesdir;, "
- "&apt-preferences;, the APT Howto."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:283
+ msgid "The Acquire Group"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-get.8.xml:536
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:284
msgid ""
- "<command>apt-get</command> returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 on "
- "error."
+ "The <literal>Acquire</literal> group of options controls the download of "
+ "packages as well as the various \"acquire methods\" responsible for the "
+ "download itself (see also &sources-list;)."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refnamediv><refpurpose>
- #: apt-key.8.xml:32
- msgid "APT key management utility"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:291
+ msgid ""
+ "Security related option defaulting to true, as giving a Release file's "
+ "validation an expiration date prevents replay attacks over a long timescale, "
+ "and can also for example help users to identify mirrors that are no longer "
+ "updated - but the feature depends on the correctness of the clock on the "
+ "user system. Archive maintainers are encouraged to create Release files with "
+ "the <literal>Valid-Until</literal> header, but if they don't or a stricter "
+ "value is desired the <literal>Max-ValidTime</literal> option below can be "
+ "used."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-key.8.xml:39
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:304
msgid ""
- "<command>apt-key</command> is used to manage the list of keys used by apt to "
- "authenticate packages. Packages which have been authenticated using these "
- "keys will be considered trusted."
+ "Maximum time (in seconds) after its creation (as indicated by the "
+ "<literal>Date</literal> header) that the <filename>Release</filename> file "
+ "should be considered valid. If the Release file itself includes a "
+ "<literal>Valid-Until</literal> header the earlier date of the two is used as "
+ "the expiration date. The default value is <literal>0</literal> which stands "
+ "for \"valid forever\". Archive specific settings can be made by appending "
+ "the label of the archive to the option name."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: apt-key.8.xml:45
- msgid "Commands"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:316
+ msgid ""
+ "Minimum time (in seconds) after its creation (as indicated by the "
+ "<literal>Date</literal> header) that the <filename>Release</filename> file "
+ "should be considered valid. Use this if you need to use a seldom updated "
+ "(local) mirror of a more frequently updated archive with a "
+ "<literal>Valid-Until</literal> 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."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-key.8.xml:50
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:328
msgid ""
- "Add a new key to the list of trusted keys. The key is read from the "
- "filename given with the parameter &synopsis-param-filename; or if the "
- "filename is <literal>-</literal> from standard input."
+ "Try to download deltas called <literal>PDiffs</literal> for indexes (like "
+ "<filename>Packages</filename> files) instead of downloading whole ones. True "
+ "by default."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-key.8.xml:63
- msgid "Remove a key from the list of trusted keys."
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:331
+ msgid ""
+ "Two sub-options to limit the use of PDiffs are also available: "
+ "<literal>FileLimit</literal> can be used to specify a maximum number of "
+ "PDiff files should be downloaded to update a "
+ "file. <literal>SizeLimit</literal> on the other hand is the maximum "
+ "percentage of the size of all patches compared to the size of the targeted "
+ "file. If one of these limits is exceeded the complete file is downloaded "
+ "instead of the patches."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-key.8.xml:74
- msgid "Output the key &synopsis-param-keyid; to standard output."
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:341
+ msgid ""
+ "Queuing mode; <literal>Queue-Mode</literal> can be one of "
+ "<literal>host</literal> or <literal>access</literal> which determines how "
+ "APT parallelizes outgoing connections. <literal>host</literal> means that "
+ "one connection per target host will be opened, <literal>access</literal> "
+ "means that one connection per URI type will be opened."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-key.8.xml:85
- msgid "Output all trusted keys to standard output."
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:349
+ msgid ""
+ "Number of retries to perform. If this is non-zero APT will retry failed "
+ "files the given number of times."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-key.8.xml:96
- msgid "List trusted keys."
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:354
+ msgid ""
+ "Use symlinks for source archives. If set to true then source archives will "
+ "be symlinked when possible instead of copying. True is the default."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-key.8.xml:107
- msgid "List fingerprints of trusted keys."
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:359
+ msgid ""
+ "<literal>http::Proxy</literal> sets the default proxy to use for HTTP "
+ "URIs. It is in the standard form of "
+ "<literal>http://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/</literal>. Per host proxies "
+ "can also be specified by using the form "
+ "<literal>http::Proxy::<host></literal> with the special keyword "
+ "<literal>DIRECT</literal> meaning to use no proxies. If no one of the above "
+ "settings is specified, <envar>http_proxy</envar> environment variable will "
+ "be used."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-key.8.xml:118
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:367
msgid ""
- "Pass advanced options to gpg. With adv --recv-key you can download the "
- "public key."
+ "Three settings are provided for cache control with HTTP/1.1 compliant proxy "
+ "caches. <literal>No-Cache</literal> tells the proxy not to use its cached "
+ "response under any circumstances. <literal>Max-Age</literal> sets the "
+ "allowed maximum age (in seconds) of an index file in the cache of the "
+ "proxy. <literal>No-Store</literal> specifies that the proxy should not "
+ "store the requested archive files in its cache, which can be used to prevent "
+ "the proxy from polluting its cache with (big) .deb files."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-key.8.xml:130
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:377 apt.conf.5.xml:449
msgid ""
- "Update the local keyring with the archive keyring and remove from the local "
- "keyring the archive keys which are no longer valid. The archive keyring is "
- "shipped in the <literal>archive-keyring</literal> package of your "
- "distribution, e.g. the <literal>debian-archive-keyring</literal> package in "
- "Debian."
+ "The option <literal>timeout</literal> sets the timeout timer used by the "
+ "method; this value applies to the connection as well as the data timeout."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-key.8.xml:144
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:380
msgid ""
- "Work similar to the <command>update</command> command above, but get the "
- "archive keyring from an URI instead and validate it against a master key. "
- "This requires an installed &wget; and an APT build configured to have a "
- "server to fetch from and a master keyring to validate. APT in Debian does "
- "not support this command and relies on <command>update</command> instead, "
- "but Ubuntu's APT does."
+ "The setting <literal>Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth</literal> 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."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-key.8.xml:161
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:387
msgid ""
- "Note that options need to be defined before the commands described in the "
- "previous section."
+ "<literal>Acquire::http::AllowRedirect</literal> controls whether APT will "
+ "follow redirects, which is enabled by default."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-key.8.xml:164
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:390
msgid ""
- "With this option it is possible to specify a specific keyring file the "
- "command should operate on. The default is that a command is executed on the "
- "<filename>trusted.gpg</filename> file as well as on all parts in the "
- "<filename>trusted.gpg.d</filename> directory, though "
- "<filename>trusted.gpg</filename> is the primary keyring which means that "
- "e.g. new keys are added to this one."
+ "The used bandwidth can be limited with "
+ "<literal>Acquire::http::Dl-Limit</literal> which accepts integer values in "
+ "kilobytes. The default value is 0 which deactivates the limit and tries to "
+ "use all available bandwidth (note that this option implicitly disables "
+ "downloading from multiple servers at the same time.)"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
- #: apt-key.8.xml:179
- msgid "<filename>/etc/apt/trustdb.gpg</filename>"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:395
+ msgid ""
+ "<literal>Acquire::http::User-Agent</literal> can be used to set a different "
+ "User-Agent for the http download method as some proxies allow access for "
+ "clients only if the client uses a known identifier."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-key.8.xml:180
- msgid "Local trust database of archive keys."
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:403
+ msgid ""
+ "The <literal>Cache-control</literal>, <literal>Timeout</literal>, "
+ "<literal>AllowRedirect</literal>, <literal>Dl-Limit</literal> and "
+ "<literal>proxy</literal> options work for HTTPS URIs in the same way as for "
+ "the <literal>http</literal> method, and default to the same values if they "
+ "are not explicitly set. The <literal>Pipeline-Depth</literal> option is not "
+ "yet supported."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
- #: apt-key.8.xml:183
- msgid "<filename>/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg</filename>"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:411
+ msgid ""
+ "<literal>CaInfo</literal> suboption specifies place of file that holds info "
+ "about trusted certificates. <literal><host>::CaInfo</literal> is the "
+ "corresponding per-host option. <literal>Verify-Peer</literal> boolean "
+ "suboption determines whether or not the server's host certificate should be "
+ "verified against trusted certificates. "
+ "<literal><host>::Verify-Peer</literal> is the corresponding per-host "
+ "option. <literal>Verify-Host</literal> boolean suboption determines whether "
+ "or not the server's hostname should be verified. "
+ "<literal><host>::Verify-Host</literal> is the corresponding per-host "
+ "option. <literal>SslCert</literal> determines what certificate to use for "
+ "client authentication. <literal><host>::SslCert</literal> is the "
+ "corresponding per-host option. <literal>SslKey</literal> determines what "
+ "private key to use for client "
+ "authentication. <literal><host>::SslKey</literal> is the corresponding "
+ "per-host option. <literal>SslForceVersion</literal> overrides default SSL "
+ "version to use. It can contain either of the strings "
+ "'<literal>TLSv1</literal>' or '<literal>SSLv3</literal>'. "
+ "<literal><host>::SslForceVersion</literal> is the corresponding "
+ "per-host option."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-key.8.xml:184
- msgid "Keyring of Debian archive trusted keys."
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:432
+ msgid ""
+ "<literal>ftp::Proxy</literal> sets the default proxy to use for FTP URIs. "
+ "It is in the standard form of "
+ "<literal>ftp://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/</literal>. Per host proxies can "
+ "also be specified by using the form "
+ "<literal>ftp::Proxy::<host></literal> with the special keyword "
+ "<literal>DIRECT</literal> meaning to use no proxies. If no one of the above "
+ "settings is specified, <envar>ftp_proxy</envar> environment variable will be "
+ "used. To use an FTP proxy you will have to set the "
+ "<literal>ftp::ProxyLogin</literal> script in the configuration file. This "
+ "entry specifies the commands to send to tell the proxy server what to "
+ "connect to. Please see &configureindex; for an example of how to do "
+ "this. The substitution variables representing the corresponding URI "
+ "component are <literal>$(PROXY_USER)</literal>, "
+ "<literal>$(PROXY_PASS)</literal>, <literal>$(SITE_USER)</literal>, "
+ "<literal>$(SITE_PASS)</literal>, <literal>$(SITE)</literal> and "
+ "<literal>$(SITE_PORT)</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
- #: apt-key.8.xml:187
- msgid "<filename>/usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-removed-keys.gpg</filename>"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:452
+ msgid ""
+ "Several settings are provided to control passive mode. Generally it is safe "
+ "to leave passive mode on; it works in nearly every environment. However, "
+ "some situations require that passive mode be disabled and port mode FTP used "
+ "instead. This can be done globally or for connections that go through a "
+ "proxy or for a specific host (see the sample config file for examples)."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-key.8.xml:188
- msgid "Keyring of Debian archive removed trusted keys."
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:459
+ msgid ""
+ "It is possible to proxy FTP over HTTP by setting the "
+ "<envar>ftp_proxy</envar> environment variable to an HTTP URL - see the "
+ "discussion of the http method above for syntax. You cannot set this in the "
+ "configuration file and it is not recommended to use FTP over HTTP due to its "
+ "low efficiency."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-key.8.xml:197
- msgid "&apt-get;, &apt-secure;"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:464
+ msgid ""
+ "The setting <literal>ForceExtended</literal> controls the use of RFC2428 "
+ "<literal>EPSV</literal> and <literal>EPRT</literal> commands. The default is "
+ "false, which means these commands are only used if the control connection is "
+ "IPv6. Setting this to true forces their use even on IPv4 connections. Note "
+ "that most FTP servers do not support RFC2428."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refnamediv><refpurpose>
- #: apt-mark.8.xml:33
- msgid "mark/unmark a package as being automatically-installed"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para><literallayout>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:478
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "/cdrom/::Mount \"foo\";"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-mark.8.xml:39
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:473
msgid ""
- "<command>apt-mark</command> will change whether a package has been marked as "
- "being automatically installed."
+ "For URIs using the <literal>cdrom</literal> method, the only configurable "
+ "option is the mount point, <literal>cdrom::Mount</literal>, which must be "
+ "the mount point for the CD-ROM (or DVD, or whatever) drive as specified in "
+ "<filename>/etc/fstab</filename>. It is possible to provide alternate mount "
+ "and unmount commands if your mount point cannot be listed in the fstab. The "
+ "syntax is to put <placeholder type=\"literallayout\" id=\"0\"/> within the "
+ "<literal>cdrom</literal> block. It is important to have the trailing slash. "
+ "Unmount commands can be specified using UMount."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-mark.8.xml:43
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:486
msgid ""
- "When you request that a package is installed, and as a result other packages "
- "are installed to satisfy its dependencies, the dependencies are marked as "
- "being automatically installed. Once these automatically installed packages "
- "are no longer depended on by any manually installed packages, they will be "
- "removed by e.g. <command>apt-get</command> or <command>aptitude</command>."
+ "For GPGV URIs the only configurable option is "
+ "<literal>gpgv::Options</literal>, which passes additional parameters to "
+ "gpgv."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-mark.8.xml:52
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para><synopsis>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:497
+ #, no-wrap
msgid ""
- "<literal>auto</literal> is used to mark a package as being automatically "
- "installed, which will cause the package to be removed when no more manually "
- "installed packages depend on this package."
+ "Acquire::CompressionTypes::<replaceable>FileExtension</replaceable> "
+ "\"<replaceable>Methodname</replaceable>\";"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-mark.8.xml:60
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:492
msgid ""
- "<literal>manual</literal> is used to mark a package as being manually "
- "installed, which will prevent the package from being automatically removed "
- "if no other packages depend on it."
+ "List of compression types which are understood by the acquire methods. "
+ "Files like <filename>Packages</filename> can be available in various "
+ "compression formats. By default the acquire methods can decompress "
+ "<command>bzip2</command>, <command>lzma</command> and "
+ "<command>gzip</command> compressed files; with this setting more formats can "
+ "be added on the fly or the used method can be changed. The syntax for this "
+ "is: <placeholder type=\"synopsis\" id=\"0\"/>"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para><synopsis>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:502
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "Acquire::CompressionTypes::Order:: \"gz\";"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para><synopsis>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:505
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "Acquire::CompressionTypes::Order { \"lzma\"; \"gz\"; };"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-mark.8.xml:68
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:498
msgid ""
- "<literal>hold</literal> is used to mark a package as hold back, which will "
- "prevent the package from being automatically installed, upgraded or "
- "removed. The command is only a wrapper around <command>dpkg "
- "--set-selections</command> and the state is therefore maintained by &dpkg; "
- "and not effected by the <option>--filename</option> option."
+ "Also, the <literal>Order</literal> subgroup can be used to define in which "
+ "order the acquire system will try to download the compressed files. The "
+ "acquire system will try the first and proceed with the next compression type "
+ "in this list on error, so to prefer one over the other type simply add the "
+ "preferred type first - default types not already added will be implicitly "
+ "appended to the end of the list, so e.g. <placeholder type=\"synopsis\" "
+ "id=\"0\"/> can be used to prefer <command>gzip</command> compressed files "
+ "over <command>bzip2</command> and <command>lzma</command>. If "
+ "<command>lzma</command> should be preferred over <command>gzip</command> and "
+ "<command>bzip2</command> the configure setting should look like this: "
+ "<placeholder type=\"synopsis\" id=\"1\"/> It is not needed to add "
+ "<literal>bz2</literal> to the list explicitly as it will be added "
+ "automatically."
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para><literallayout>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:512
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "Dir::Bin::bzip2 \"/bin/bzip2\";"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-mark.8.xml:78
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:507
msgid ""
- "<literal>unhold</literal> is used to cancel a previously set hold on a "
- "package to allow all actions again."
+ "Note that the "
+ "<literal>Dir::Bin::<replaceable>Methodname</replaceable></literal> will be "
+ "checked at run time. If this option has been set, the method will only be "
+ "used if this file exists; e.g. for the <literal>bzip2</literal> method (the "
+ "inbuilt) setting is: <placeholder type=\"literallayout\" id=\"0\"/> Note "
+ "also that list entries specified on the command line will be added at the "
+ "end of the list specified in the configuration files, but before the default "
+ "entries. To prefer a type in this case over the ones specified in the "
+ "configuration files you can set the option direct - not in list style. This "
+ "will not override the defined list; it will only prefix the list with this "
+ "type."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-mark.8.xml:84
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:517
msgid ""
- "<literal>showauto</literal> is used to print a list of automatically "
- "installed packages with each package on a new line. All automatically "
- "installed packages will be listed if no package is given. If packages are "
- "given only those which are automatically installed will be shown."
+ "The special type <literal>uncompressed</literal> can be used to give "
+ "uncompressed files a preference, but note that most archives don't provide "
+ "uncompressed files so this is mostly only useable for local mirrors."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-mark.8.xml:92
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:524
msgid ""
- "<literal>showmanual</literal> can be used in the same way as "
- "<literal>showauto</literal> except that it will print a list of manually "
- "installed packages instead."
+ "When downloading <literal>gzip</literal> 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."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-mark.8.xml:99
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:532
msgid ""
- "<literal>showhold</literal> is used to print a list of packages on hold in "
- "the same way as for the other show commands."
+ "The Languages subsection controls which <filename>Translation</filename> "
+ "files are downloaded and in which order APT tries to display the "
+ "description-translations. APT will try to display the first available "
+ "description in the language which is listed first. Languages can be defined "
+ "with their short or long language codes. Note that not all archives provide "
+ "<filename>Translation</filename> files for every language - the long "
+ "language codes are especially rare."
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para><programlisting>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:549
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "Acquire::Languages { \"environment\"; \"de\"; \"en\"; \"none\"; \"fr\"; };"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-mark.8.xml:115
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:537
msgid ""
- "Read/Write package stats from the filename given with the parameter "
- "&synopsis-param-filename; instead of from the default location, which is "
- "<filename>extended_status</filename> in the directory defined by the "
- "Configuration Item: <literal>Dir::State</literal>."
+ "The default list includes \"environment\" and "
+ "\"en\". \"<literal>environment</literal>\" has a special meaning here: it "
+ "will be replaced at runtime with the language codes extracted from the "
+ "<literal>LC_MESSAGES</literal> environment variable. It will also ensure "
+ "that these codes are not included twice in the list. If "
+ "<literal>LC_MESSAGES</literal> is set to \"C\" only the "
+ "<filename>Translation-en</filename> file (if available) will be used. To "
+ "force APT to use no Translation file use the setting "
+ "<literal>Acquire::Languages=none</literal>. \"<literal>none</literal>\" is "
+ "another special meaning code which will stop the search for a suitable "
+ "<filename>Translation</filename> file. This tells APT to download these "
+ "translations too, without actually using them unless the environment "
+ "specifies the languages. So the following example configuration will result "
+ "in the order \"en, de\" in an English locale or \"de, en\" in a German "
+ "one. Note that \"fr\" is downloaded, but not used unless APT is used in a "
+ "French locale (where the order would be \"fr, de, en\"). <placeholder "
+ "type=\"programlisting\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-mark.8.xml:136
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:550
msgid ""
- "<command>apt-mark</command> returns zero on normal operation, non-zero on "
- "error."
+ "Note: To prevent problems resulting from APT being executed in different "
+ "environments (e.g. by different users or by other programs) all Translation "
+ "files which are found in <filename>/var/lib/apt/lists/</filename> will be "
+ "added to the end of the list (after an implicit "
+ "\"<literal>none</literal>\")."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refnamediv><refpurpose>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:47
- msgid "Archive authentication support for APT"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:560
+ msgid "Directories"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:52
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:562
msgid ""
- "Starting with version 0.6, <command>apt</command> contains code that does "
- "signature checking of the Release file for all archives. This ensures that "
- "packages in the archive can't be modified by people who have no access to "
- "the Release file signing key."
+ "The <literal>Dir::State</literal> section has directories that pertain to "
+ "local state information. <literal>lists</literal> is the directory to place "
+ "downloaded package lists in and <literal>status</literal> is the name of the "
+ "&dpkg; status file. <literal>preferences</literal> is the name of the APT "
+ "<filename>preferences</filename> file. <literal>Dir::State</literal> "
+ "contains the default directory to prefix on all sub-items if they do not "
+ "start with <filename>/</filename> or <filename>./</filename>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:60
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:569
msgid ""
- "If a package comes from a archive without a signature or with a signature "
- "that apt does not have a key for that package is considered untrusted and "
- "installing it will result in a big warning. <command>apt-get</command> will "
- "currently only warn for unsigned archives, future releases might force all "
- "sources to be verified before downloading packages from them."
- msgstr ""
-
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:69
- msgid ""
- "The package frontends &apt-get;, &aptitude; and &synaptic; support this new "
- "authentication feature."
+ "<literal>Dir::Cache</literal> contains locations pertaining to local cache "
+ "information, such as the two package caches <literal>srcpkgcache</literal> "
+ "and <literal>pkgcache</literal> as well as the location to place downloaded "
+ "archives, <literal>Dir::Cache::archives</literal>. 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 <literal>Dir::State</literal> the "
+ "default directory is contained in <literal>Dir::Cache</literal>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:74
- msgid "Trusted archives"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:578
+ msgid ""
+ "<literal>Dir::Etc</literal> contains the location of configuration files, "
+ "<literal>sourcelist</literal> gives the location of the sourcelist and "
+ "<literal>main</literal> is the default configuration file (setting has no "
+ "effect, unless it is done from the config file specified by "
+ "<envar>APT_CONFIG</envar>)."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:77
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:584
msgid ""
- "The chain of trust from an apt archive to the end user is made up of "
- "different steps. <command>apt-secure</command> is the last step in this "
- "chain, trusting an archive does not mean that the packages that you trust it "
- "do not contain malicious code but means that you trust the archive "
- "maintainer. It's the archive maintainer responsibility to ensure that the "
- "archive integrity is correct."
+ "The <literal>Dir::Parts</literal> setting reads in all the config fragments "
+ "in lexical order from the directory specified. After this is done then the "
+ "main config file is loaded."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:85
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:588
msgid ""
- "apt-secure does not review signatures at a package level. If you require "
- "tools to do this you should look at <command>debsig-verify</command> and "
- "<command>debsign</command> (provided in the debsig-verify and devscripts "
- "packages respectively)."
+ "Binary programs are pointed to by "
+ "<literal>Dir::Bin</literal>. <literal>Dir::Bin::Methods</literal> specifies "
+ "the location of the method handlers and <literal>gzip</literal>, "
+ "<literal>bzip2</literal>, <literal>lzma</literal>, <literal>dpkg</literal>, "
+ "<literal>apt-get</literal> <literal>dpkg-source</literal> "
+ "<literal>dpkg-buildpackage</literal> and <literal>apt-cache</literal> "
+ "specify the location of the respective programs."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:92
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:596
msgid ""
- "The chain of trust in Debian starts when a maintainer uploads a new package "
- "or a new version of a package to the Debian archive. This upload in order to "
- "become effective needs to be signed by a key of a maintainer within the "
- "Debian maintainer's keyring (available in the debian-keyring "
- "package). Maintainer's keys are signed by other maintainers following "
- "pre-established procedures to ensure the identity of the key holder."
+ "The configuration item <literal>RootDir</literal> has a special meaning. If "
+ "set, all paths in <literal>Dir::</literal> will be relative to "
+ "<literal>RootDir</literal>, <emphasis>even paths that are specified "
+ "absolutely</emphasis>. So, for instance, if <literal>RootDir</literal> is "
+ "set to <filename>/tmp/staging</filename> and "
+ "<literal>Dir::State::status</literal> is set to "
+ "<filename>/var/lib/dpkg/status</filename>, then the status file will be "
+ "looked up in <filename>/tmp/staging/var/lib/dpkg/status</filename>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:102
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:609
msgid ""
- "Once the uploaded package is verified and included in the archive, the "
- "maintainer signature is stripped off, an MD5 sum of the package is computed "
- "and put in the Packages file. The MD5 sum of all of the packages files are "
- "then computed and put into the Release file. The Release file is then signed "
- "by the archive key (which is created once a year) and distributed through "
- "the FTP server. This key is also on the Debian keyring."
+ "The <literal>Ignore-Files-Silently</literal> list can be used to specify "
+ "which files APT should silently ignore while parsing the files in the "
+ "fragment directories. Per default a file which end with "
+ "<literal>.disabled</literal>, <literal>~</literal>, <literal>.bak</literal> "
+ "or <literal>.dpkg-[a-z]+</literal> is silently ignored. As seen in the last "
+ "default value these patterns can use regular expression syntax."
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:618
+ msgid "APT in DSelect"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:112
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:620
msgid ""
- "Any end user can check the signature of the Release file, extract the MD5 "
- "sum of a package from it and compare it with the MD5 sum of the package he "
- "downloaded. Prior to version 0.6 only the MD5 sum of the downloaded Debian "
- "package was checked. Now both the MD5 sum and the signature of the Release "
- "file are checked."
+ "When APT is used as a &dselect; method several configuration directives "
+ "control the default behavior. These are in the <literal>DSelect</literal> "
+ "section."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:119
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:625
msgid ""
- "Notice that this is distinct from checking signatures on a per package "
- "basis. It is designed to prevent two possible attacks:"
+ "Cache Clean mode; this value may be one of <literal>always</literal>, "
+ "<literal>prompt</literal>, <literal>auto</literal>, "
+ "<literal>pre-auto</literal> and <literal>never</literal>. "
+ "<literal>always</literal> and <literal>prompt</literal> will remove all "
+ "packages from the cache after upgrading, <literal>prompt</literal> (the "
+ "default) does so conditionally. <literal>auto</literal> removes only those "
+ "packages which are no longer downloadable (replaced with a new version for "
+ "instance). <literal>pre-auto</literal> performs this action before "
+ "downloading new packages."
msgstr ""
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itemizedlist><listitem><para>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:124
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
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+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:639
msgid ""
- "<literal>Network \"man in the middle\" attacks</literal>. Without signature "
- "checking, a malicious agent can introduce himself in the package download "
- "process and provide malicious software either by controlling a network "
- "element (router, switch, etc.) or by redirecting traffic to a rogue server "
- "(through arp or DNS spoofing attacks)."
+ "The contents of this variable are passed to &apt-get; as command line "
+ "options when it is run for the install phase."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
itemizedlist><listitem><para>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:132
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:644
msgid ""
- "<literal>Mirror network compromise</literal>. Without signature checking, a "
- "malicious agent can compromise a mirror host and modify the files in it to "
- "propagate malicious software to all users downloading packages from that "
- "host."
+ "The contents of this variable are passed to &apt-get; as command line "
+ "options when it is run for the update phase."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:139
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:649
msgid ""
- "However, it does not defend against a compromise of the Debian master server "
- "itself (which signs the packages) or against a compromise of the key used to "
- "sign the Release files. In any case, this mechanism can complement a "
- "per-package signature."
+ "If true the [U]pdate operation in &dselect; will always prompt to continue. "
+ "The default is to prompt only on error."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:145
- msgid "User configuration"
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:655
+ msgid "How APT calls &dpkg;"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:147
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:656
msgid ""
- "<command>apt-key</command> is the program that manages the list of keys used "
- "by apt. It can be used to add or remove keys although an installation of "
- "this release will automatically provide the default Debian archive signing "
- "keys used in the Debian package repositories."
+ "Several configuration directives control how APT invokes &dpkg;. These are "
+ "in the <literal>DPkg</literal> section."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:154
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:661
msgid ""
- "In order to add a new key you need to first download it (you should make "
- "sure you are using a trusted communication channel when retrieving it), add "
- "it with <command>apt-key</command> and then run <command>apt-get "
- "update</command> so that apt can download and verify the "
- "<filename>InRelease</filename> or <filename>Release.gpg</filename> files "
- "from the archives you have configured."
- msgstr ""
-
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:163
- msgid "Archive configuration"
+ "This is a list of options to pass to &dpkg;. The options must be specified "
+ "using the list notation and each list item is passed as a single argument to "
+ "&dpkg;."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:165
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:667
msgid ""
- "If you want to provide archive signatures in an archive under your "
- "maintenance you have to:"
+ "This is a list of shell commands to run before/after invoking &dpkg;. Like "
+ "<literal>options</literal> this must be specified in list notation. The "
+ "commands are invoked in order using <filename>/bin/sh</filename>; should any "
+ "fail APT will abort."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
itemizedlist><listitem><para>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:170
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
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+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:674
msgid ""
- "<emphasis>Create a toplevel Release file</emphasis>, if it does not exist "
- "already. You can do this by running <command>apt-ftparchive "
- "release</command> (provided in apt-utils)."
+ "This is a list of shell commands to run before invoking &dpkg;. Like "
+ "<literal>options</literal> this must be specified in list notation. The "
+ "commands are invoked in order using <filename>/bin/sh</filename>; should any "
+ "fail APT will abort. APT will pass the filenames of all .deb files it is "
+ "going to install to the commands, one per line on standard input."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
itemizedlist><listitem><para>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:175
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:680
msgid ""
- "<emphasis>Sign it</emphasis>. You can do this by running <command>gpg "
- "--clearsign -o InRelease Release</command> and <command>gpg -abs -o "
- "Release.gpg Release</command>."
+ "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 2 is enabled by setting "
+ "<literal>DPkg::Tools::options::cmd::Version</literal> to "
+ "2. <literal>cmd</literal> is a command given to "
+ "<literal>Pre-Install-Pkgs</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
itemizedlist><listitem><para>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:179
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:688
msgid ""
- "<emphasis>Publish the key fingerprint</emphasis>, that way your users will "
- "know what key they need to import in order to authenticate the files in the "
- "archive."
+ "APT chdirs to this directory before invoking &dpkg;, the default is "
+ "<filename>/</filename>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:186
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:693
msgid ""
- "Whenever the contents of the archive changes (new packages are added or "
- "removed) the archive maintainer has to follow the first two steps previously "
- "outlined."
+ "These options are passed to &dpkg-buildpackage; when compiling packages; the "
+ "default is to disable signing and produce all binaries."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:194
- msgid ""
- "&apt-conf;, &apt-get;, &sources-list;, &apt-key;, &apt-ftparchive;, "
- "&debsign; &debsig-verify;, &gpg;"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:698
+ msgid "dpkg trigger usage (and related options)"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:198
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:699
msgid ""
- "For more background information you might want to review the <ulink "
- "url=\"http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch7\">Debian "
- "Security Infrastructure</ulink> chapter of the Securing Debian Manual "
- "(available also in the harden-doc package) and the <ulink "
- "url=\"http://www.cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/strong_distro.html\" >Strong "
- "Distribution HOWTO</ulink> by V. Alex Brennen."
+ "APT can call &dpkg; in such a way as to let it make aggressive use of "
+ "triggers over multiple calls of &dpkg;. Without further options &dpkg; will "
+ "use triggers once each time it runs. Activating these options can therefore "
+ "decrease the time needed to perform the install or upgrade. Note that it is "
+ "intended to activate these options per default in the future, but as it "
+ "drastically changes the way APT calls &dpkg; it needs a lot more testing. "
+ "<emphasis>These options are therefore currently experimental and should not "
+ "be used in production environments.</emphasis> It also breaks progress "
+ "reporting such that all front-ends will currently stay around half (or more) "
+ "of the time in the 100% state while it actually configures all packages."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:211
- msgid "Manpage Authors"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><literallayout>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:714
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid ""
+ "DPkg::NoTriggers \"true\";\n"
+ "PackageManager::Configure \"smart\";\n"
+ "DPkg::ConfigurePending \"true\";\n"
+ "DPkg::TriggersPending \"true\";"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-secure.8.xml:213
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:708
msgid ""
- "This man-page is based on the work of Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña, Isaac "
- "Jones, Colin Walters, Florian Weimer and Michael Vogt."
+ "Note that it is not guaranteed that APT will support these options or that "
+ "these options will not cause (big) trouble in the future. If you have "
+ "understand the current risks and problems with these options, but are brave "
+ "enough to help testing them, create a new configuration file and test a "
+ "combination of options. Please report any bugs, problems and improvements "
+ "you encounter and make sure to note which options you have used in your "
+ "reports. Asking &dpkg; for help could also be useful for debugging proposes, "
+ "see e.g. <command>dpkg --audit</command>. A defensive option combination "
+ "would be <placeholder type=\"literallayout\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refnamediv><refpurpose>
- #: apt-sortpkgs.1.xml:33
- msgid "Utility to sort package index files"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:721
+ msgid ""
+ "Add the no triggers flag to all &dpkg; calls (except the ConfigurePending "
+ "call). See &dpkg; if you are interested in what this actually means. In "
+ "short: &dpkg; will not run the triggers when this flag is present unless it "
+ "is explicitly called to do so in an extra call. Note that this option "
+ "exists (undocumented) also in older APT versions with a slightly different "
+ "meaning: Previously these option only append --no-triggers to the configure "
+ "calls to &dpkg; - now APT will also add this flag to the unpack and remove "
+ "calls."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-sortpkgs.1.xml:39
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:729
msgid ""
- "<command>apt-sortpkgs</command> will take an index file (Source index or "
- "Package index) and sort the records so that they are ordered by the package "
- "name. It will also sort the internal fields of each record according to the "
- "internal sorting rules."
+ "Valid values are \"<literal>all</literal>\", \"<literal>smart</literal>\" "
+ "and \"<literal>no</literal>\". The default value is "
+ "\"<literal>all</literal>\", which causes APT to configure all packages. The "
+ "\"<literal>smart</literal>\" way is to configure only packages which need to "
+ "be configured before another package can be unpacked (Pre-Depends), and let "
+ "the rest be configured by &dpkg; with a call generated by the "
+ "ConfigurePending option (see below). On the other hand, "
+ "\"<literal>no</literal>\" will not configure anything, and totally relies on "
+ "&dpkg; for configuration (which at the moment will fail if a Pre-Depends is "
+ "encountered). Setting this option to any value other than "
+ "<literal>all</literal> will implicitly also activate the next option by "
+ "default, as otherwise the system could end in an unconfigured and "
+ "potentially unbootable state."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt-sortpkgs.1.xml:45
- msgid "All output is sent to stdout, the input must be a seekable file."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:744
+ msgid ""
+ "If this option is set APT will call <command>dpkg --configure "
+ "--pending</command> to let &dpkg; handle all required configurations and "
+ "triggers. This option is activated automatically per default if the previous "
+ "option is not set to <literal>all</literal>, but deactivating it could be "
+ "useful if you want to run APT multiple times in a row - e.g. in an "
+ "installer. In these sceneries you could deactivate this option in all but "
+ "the last run."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt-sortpkgs.1.xml:54
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:751
msgid ""
- "Use Source index field ordering. Configuration Item: "
- "<literal>APT::SortPkgs::Source</literal>."
+ "Useful for the <literal>smart</literal> configuration as a package which has "
+ "pending triggers is not considered as <literal>installed</literal>, and "
+ "&dpkg; treats them as <literal>unpacked</literal> currently which is a "
+ "showstopper for Pre-Dependencies (see debbugs #526774). Note that this will "
+ "process all triggers, not only the triggers needed to configure this "
+ "package."
msgstr ""
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- #: apt-sortpkgs.1.xml:68
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para><literallayout>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:764
+ #, no-wrap
msgid ""
- "<command>apt-sortpkgs</command> returns zero on normal operation, decimal "
- "100 on error."
+ "OrderList::Score {\n"
+ "\tDelete 500;\n"
+ "\tEssential 200;\n"
+ "\tImmediate 10;\n"
+ "\tPreDepends 50;\n"
+ "};"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refentryinfo><author><contrib>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:20
- msgid "Initial documentation of Debug::*."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:757
+ msgid ""
+ "Essential packages (and their dependencies) should be configured immediately "
+ "after unpacking. It is a good idea to do this quite early in the upgrade "
+ "process as these configure calls also currently require "
+ "<literal>DPkg::TriggersPending</literal> which will run quite a few triggers "
+ "(which may not be needed). Essentials get per default a high score but the "
+ "immediate flag is relatively low (a package which has a Pre-Depends is rated "
+ "higher). These option and the others in the same group can be used to "
+ "change the scoring. The following example shows the settings with their "
+ "default values. <placeholder type=\"literallayout\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refentryinfo><author><email>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:21
- msgid "dburrows@debian.org"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:777
+ msgid "Periodic and Archives options"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refmeta><manvolnum>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:31 apt_preferences.5.xml:25 sources.list.5.xml:26
- msgid "5"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:778
+ msgid ""
+ "<literal>APT::Periodic</literal> and <literal>APT::Archives</literal> groups "
+ "of options configure behavior of apt periodic updates, which is done by the "
+ "<literal>/etc/cron.daily/apt</literal> script. See the top of this script "
+ "for the brief documentation of these options."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refnamediv><refpurpose>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:38
- msgid "Configuration file for APT"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:786
+ msgid "Debug options"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:42
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:788
msgid ""
- "<filename>apt.conf</filename> is the main configuration file for the APT "
- "suite of tools, but by far not the only place changes to options can be "
- "made. All tools therefore share the configuration files and also use a "
- "common command line parser to provide a uniform environment."
+ "Enabling options in the <literal>Debug::</literal> section will cause "
+ "debugging information to be sent to the standard error stream of the program "
+ "utilizing the <literal>apt</literal> libraries, or enable special program "
+ "modes that are primarily useful for debugging the behavior of "
+ "<literal>apt</literal>. Most of these options are not interesting to a "
+ "normal user, but a few may be:"
msgstr ""
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orderedlist><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:47
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:799
msgid ""
- "When an APT tool starts up it will read the configuration files in the "
- "following order:"
+ "<literal>Debug::pkgProblemResolver</literal> enables output about the "
+ "decisions made by <literal>dist-upgrade, upgrade, install, remove, "
+ "purge</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
orderedlist><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:49
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:807
msgid ""
- "the file specified by the <envar>APT_CONFIG</envar> environment variable (if "
- "any)"
+ "<literal>Debug::NoLocking</literal> disables all file locking. This can be "
+ "used to run some operations (for instance, <literal>apt-get -s "
+ "install</literal>) as a non-root user."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
orderedlist><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:51
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:816
msgid ""
- "all files in <literal>Dir::Etc::Parts</literal> in alphanumeric ascending "
- "order which have either no or \"<literal>conf</literal>\" as filename "
- "extension and which only contain alphanumeric, hyphen (-), underscore (_) "
- "and period (.) characters. Otherwise APT will print a notice that it has "
- "ignored a file if the file doesn't match a pattern in the "
- "<literal>Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently</literal> configuration list - in this "
- "case it will be silently ignored."
- msgstr ""
-
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><orderedlist><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:58
- msgid "the main configuration file specified by <literal>Dir::Etc::main</literal>"
+ "<literal>Debug::pkgDPkgPM</literal> prints out the actual command line each "
+ "time that <literal>apt</literal> invokes &dpkg;."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><orderedlist><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:60
+ #. TODO: provide a
+ #. motivating example, except I haven't a clue why you'd want
+ #. to do this.
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:824
msgid ""
- "the command line options are applied to override the configuration "
- "directives or to load even more configuration files."
- msgstr ""
-
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:64
- msgid "Syntax"
+ "<literal>Debug::IdentCdrom</literal> disables the inclusion of statfs data "
+ "in CD-ROM IDs."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:65
- msgid ""
- "The configuration file is organized in a tree with options organized into "
- "functional groups. Option specification is given with a double colon "
- "notation, for instance <literal>APT::Get::Assume-Yes</literal> is an option "
- "within the APT tool group, for the Get tool. Options do not inherit from "
- "their parent groups."
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:834
+ msgid "A full list of debugging options to apt follows."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:71
- msgid ""
- "Syntactically the configuration language is modeled after what the ISC tools "
- "such as bind and dhcp use. Lines starting with <literal>//</literal> are "
- "treated as comments (ignored), as well as all text between "
- "<literal>/*</literal> and <literal>*/</literal>, just like C/C++ comments. "
- "Each line is of the form <literal>APT::Get::Assume-Yes "
- "\"true\";</literal>. The trailing semicolon and the quotes are required. The "
- "value must be on one line, and there is no kind of string concatenation. It "
- "must not include inside quotes. The behavior of the backslash \"\\\" and "
- "escaped characters inside a value is undefined and it should not be used. An "
- "option name may include alphanumerical characters and the \"/-:._+\" "
- "characters. A new scope can be opened with curly braces, like:"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:843
+ msgid "Print information related to accessing <literal>cdrom://</literal> sources."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><informalexample><programlisting>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:85
- #, no-wrap
- msgid ""
- "APT {\n"
- " Get {\n"
- " Assume-Yes \"true\";\n"
- " Fix-Broken \"true\";\n"
- " };\n"
- "};\n"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:854
+ msgid "Print information related to downloading packages using FTP."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:93
- msgid ""
- "with newlines placed to make it more readable. Lists can be created by "
- "opening a scope and including a single string enclosed in quotes followed by "
- "a semicolon. Multiple entries can be included, each separated by a "
- "semicolon."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:865
+ msgid "Print information related to downloading packages using HTTP."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><informalexample><programlisting>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:98
- #, no-wrap
- msgid "DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {\"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt\";};\n"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:876
+ msgid "Print information related to downloading packages using HTTPS."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:101
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:887
msgid ""
- "In general the sample configuration file in "
- "<filename>&docdir;examples/apt.conf</filename> &configureindex; is a good "
- "guide for how it should look."
+ "Print information related to verifying cryptographic signatures using "
+ "<literal>gpg</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:105
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:898
msgid ""
- "The names of the configuration items are not case-sensitive. So in the "
- "previous example you could use <literal>dpkg::pre-install-pkgs</literal>."
+ "Output information about the process of accessing collections of packages "
+ "stored on CD-ROMs."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:108
- msgid ""
- "Names for the configuration items are optional if a list is defined as it "
- "can be see in the <literal>DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs</literal> example "
- "above. If you don't specify a name a new entry will simply add a new option "
- "to the list. If you specify a name you can override the option as every "
- "other option by reassigning a new value to the option."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:908
+ msgid "Describes the process of resolving build-dependencies in &apt-get;."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:113
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:918
msgid ""
- "Two specials are allowed, <literal>#include</literal> (which is deprecated "
- "and not supported by alternative implementations) and "
- "<literal>#clear</literal>: <literal>#include</literal> will include the "
- "given file, unless the filename ends in a slash, then the whole directory is "
- "included. <literal>#clear</literal> is used to erase a part of the "
- "configuration tree. The specified element and all its descendants are "
- "erased. (Note that these lines also need to end with a semicolon.)"
+ "Output each cryptographic hash that is generated by the "
+ "<literal>apt</literal> libraries."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:121
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:928
msgid ""
- "The #clear command is the only way to delete a list or a complete scope. "
- "Reopening a scope or the ::-style described below will "
- "<emphasis>not</emphasis> override previously written entries. Only options "
- "can be overridden by addressing a new value to it - lists and scopes can't "
- "be overridden, only cleared."
+ "Do not include information from <literal>statfs</literal>, namely the number "
+ "of used and free blocks on the CD-ROM filesystem, when generating an ID for "
+ "a CD-ROM."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:126
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:939
msgid ""
- "All of the APT tools take a -o option which allows an arbitrary "
- "configuration directive to be specified on the command line. The syntax is a "
- "full option name (<literal>APT::Get::Assume-Yes</literal> for instance) "
- "followed by an equals sign then the new value of the option. To append a new "
- "element to a list, add a trailing :: to the name of the list. (As you might "
- "suspect: The scope syntax can't be used on the command line.)"
+ "Disable all file locking. For instance, this will allow two instances of "
+ "<quote><literal>apt-get update</literal></quote> to run at the same time."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:133
- msgid ""
- "Note that you can use :: only for appending one item per line to a list and "
- "that you should not use it in combination with the scope syntax. (The scope "
- "syntax implicit insert ::) Using both syntaxes together will trigger a bug "
- "which some users unfortunately depend on: An option with the unusual name "
- "\"<literal>::</literal>\" which acts like every other option with a "
- "name. These introduces many problems including that a user who writes "
- "multiple lines in this <emphasis>wrong</emphasis> syntax in the hope to "
- "append to a list will gain the opposite as only the last assignment for this "
- "option \"<literal>::</literal>\" will be used. Upcoming APT versions will "
- "raise errors and will stop working if they encounter this misuse, so please "
- "correct such statements now as long as APT doesn't complain explicit about "
- "them."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:951
+ msgid "Log when items are added to or removed from the global download queue."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:145
- msgid "The APT Group"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:961
+ msgid ""
+ "Output status messages and errors related to verifying checksums and "
+ "cryptographic signatures of downloaded files."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:146
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:971
msgid ""
- "This group of options controls general APT behavior as well as holding the "
- "options for all of the tools."
+ "Output information about downloading and applying package index list diffs, "
+ "and errors relating to package index list diffs."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:151
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:983
msgid ""
- "System Architecture; sets the architecture to use when fetching files and "
- "parsing package lists. The internal default is the architecture apt was "
- "compiled for."
+ "Output information related to patching apt package lists when downloading "
+ "index diffs instead of full indices."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:157
- msgid ""
- "All Architectures the system supports. Processors implementing the "
- "<literal>amd64</literal> (also called <literal>x86-64</literal>) instruction "
- "set are e.g. also able to execute binaries compiled for the "
- "<literal>i386</literal> (<literal>x86</literal>) instruction set; This list "
- "is use when fetching files and parsing package lists. The internal default "
- "is always the native architecture (<literal>APT::Architecture</literal>) "
- "and all foreign architectures it can retrieve by calling <command>dpkg "
- "--print-foreign-architectures</command>."
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:994
+ msgid "Log all interactions with the sub-processes that actually perform downloads."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:167
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:1005
msgid ""
- "Default release to install packages from if more than one version "
- "available. Contains release name, codename or release version. Examples: "
- "'stable', 'testing', 'unstable', '&stable-codename;', '&testing-codename;', "
- "'4.0', '5.0*'. See also &apt-preferences;."
+ "Log events related to the automatically-installed status of packages and to "
+ "the removal of unused packages."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:173
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:1015
msgid ""
- "Ignore Held packages; This global option causes the problem resolver to "
- "ignore held packages in its decision making."
+ "Generate debug messages describing which packages are being automatically "
+ "installed to resolve dependencies. This corresponds to the initial "
+ "auto-install pass performed in, e.g., <literal>apt-get install</literal>, "
+ "and not to the full <literal>apt</literal> dependency resolver; see "
+ "<literal>Debug::pkgProblemResolver</literal> for that."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:178
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:1029
msgid ""
- "Defaults to on. When turned on the autoclean feature will remove any "
- "packages which can no longer be downloaded from the cache. If turned off "
- "then packages that are locally installed are also excluded from cleaning - "
- "but note that APT provides no direct means to reinstall them."
+ "Generate debug messages describing which packages are marked as "
+ "keep/install/remove while the ProblemResolver does his work. Each addition "
+ "or deletion may trigger additional actions; they are shown indented two "
+ "additional spaces under the original entry. The format for each line is "
+ "<literal>MarkKeep</literal>, <literal>MarkDelete</literal> or "
+ "<literal>MarkInstall</literal> followed by <literal>package-name <a.b.c "
+ "-> d.e.f | x.y.z> (section)</literal> where <literal>a.b.c</literal> "
+ "is the current version of the package, <literal>d.e.f</literal> is the "
+ "version considered for installation and <literal>x.y.z</literal> is a newer "
+ "version, but not considered for installation (because of a low pin "
+ "score). The later two can be omitted if there is none or if it is the same "
+ "as the installed version. <literal>section</literal> is the name of the "
+ "section the package appears in."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:185
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:1050
msgid ""
- "Defaults to on which will cause APT to install essential and important "
- "packages as fast as possible in the install/upgrade operation. This is done "
- "to limit the effect of a failing &dpkg; call: If this option is disabled APT "
- "does treat an important package in the same way as an extra package: Between "
- "the unpacking of the important package A and his configuration can then be "
- "many other unpack or configuration calls, e.g. for package B which has no "
- "relation to A, but causes the dpkg call to fail (e.g. because maintainer "
- "script of package B generates an error) which results in a system state in "
- "which package A is unpacked but unconfigured - each package depending on A "
- "is now no longer guaranteed to work as their dependency on A is not longer "
- "satisfied. The immediate configuration marker is also applied to all "
- "dependencies which can generate a problem if the dependencies e.g. form a "
- "circle as a dependency with the immediate flag is comparable with a "
- "Pre-Dependency. So in theory it is possible that APT encounters a situation "
- "in which it is unable to perform immediate configuration, errors out and "
- "refers to this option so the user can deactivate the immediate configuration "
- "temporarily to be able to perform an install/upgrade again. Note the use of "
- "the word \"theory\" here as this problem was only encountered by now in real "
- "world a few times in non-stable distribution versions and was caused by "
- "wrong dependencies of the package in question or by a system in an already "
- "broken state, so you should not blindly disable this option as the mentioned "
- "scenario above is not the only problem immediate configuration can help to "
- "prevent in the first place. Before a big operation like "
- "<literal>dist-upgrade</literal> is run with this option disabled it should "
- "be tried to explicitly <literal>install</literal> the package APT is unable "
- "to configure immediately, but please make sure to report your problem also "
- "to your distribution and to the APT team with the buglink below so they can "
- "work on improving or correcting the upgrade process."
+ "When invoking &dpkg;, output the precise command line with which it is being "
+ "invoked, with arguments separated by a single space character."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:208
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:1061
msgid ""
- "Never Enable this option unless you -really- know what you are doing. It "
- "permits APT to temporarily remove an essential package to break a "
- "Conflicts/Conflicts or Conflicts/Pre-Depend loop between two essential "
- "packages. SUCH A LOOP SHOULD NEVER EXIST AND IS A GRAVE BUG. This option "
- "will work if the essential packages are not tar, gzip, libc, dpkg, bash or "
- "anything that those packages depend on."
+ "Output all the data received from &dpkg; on the status file descriptor and "
+ "any errors encountered while parsing it."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:217
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:1072
msgid ""
- "APT uses since version 0.7.26 a resizable memory mapped cache file to store "
- "the 'available' information. <literal>Cache-Start</literal> 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 this amount of space needs to be available for APT otherwise it will "
- "likely fail ungracefully, so for memory restricted devices this value should "
- "be lowered while on systems with a lot of configured sources it should be "
- "increased. <literal>Cache-Grow</literal> defines in bytes with the default "
- "of 1048576 (~1 MB) how much the Cache size will be increased in the event "
- "the space defined by <literal>Cache-Start</literal> 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 "
- "<literal>Cache-Limit</literal>. The default of "
- "<literal>Cache-Limit</literal> is 0 which stands for no limit. If "
- "<literal>Cache-Grow</literal> is set to 0 the automatic grow of the cache is "
- "disabled."
+ "Generate a trace of the algorithm that decides the order in which "
+ "<literal>apt</literal> should pass packages to &dpkg;."
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:1084
+ msgid "Output status messages tracing the steps performed when invoking &dpkg;."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:233
- msgid "Defines which package(s) are considered essential build dependencies."
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:1095
+ msgid "Output the priority of each package list on startup."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:237
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:1105
msgid ""
- "The Get subsection controls the &apt-get; tool, please see its documentation "
- "for more information about the options here."
+ "Trace the execution of the dependency resolver (this applies only to what "
+ "happens when a complex dependency problem is encountered)."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:242
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:1116
msgid ""
- "The Cache subsection controls the &apt-cache; tool, please see its "
- "documentation for more information about the options here."
+ "Display a list of all installed packages with their calculated score used by "
+ "the pkgProblemResolver. The description of the package is the same as "
+ "described in <literal>Debug::pkgDepCache::Marker</literal>"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:247
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:1128
msgid ""
- "The CDROM subsection controls the &apt-cdrom; tool, please see its "
- "documentation for more information about the options here."
+ "Print information about the vendors read from "
+ "<filename>/etc/apt/vendors.list</filename>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:253
- msgid "The Acquire Group"
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:1150 apt_preferences.5.xml:545 sources.list.5.xml:211 apt-ftparchive.1.xml:596
+ msgid "Examples"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:254
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:1151
msgid ""
- "The <literal>Acquire</literal> group of options controls the download of "
- "packages and the URI handlers."
+ "&configureindex; is a configuration file showing example values for all "
+ "possible options."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:259
- msgid ""
- "Security related option defaulting to true as an expiring validation for a "
- "Release file prevents longtime replay attacks and can e.g. also help users "
- "to identify no longer updated mirrors - but the feature depends on the "
- "correctness of the time on the user system. Archive maintainers are "
- "encouraged to create Release files with the <literal>Valid-Until</literal> "
- "header, but if they don't or a stricter value is volitional the following "
- "<literal>Max-ValidTime</literal> option can be used."
+ #. ? reading apt.conf
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt.conf.5.xml:1163
+ msgid "&apt-cache;, &apt-config;, &apt-preferences;."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:270
- msgid ""
- "Seconds the Release file should be considered valid after it was created "
- "(indicated by the <literal>Date</literal> header). If the Release file "
- "itself includes a <literal>Valid-Until</literal> header the earlier date of "
- "the two is used as the expiration date. The default value is "
- "<literal>0</literal> which stands for \"for ever valid\". Archive specific "
- "settings can be made by appending the label of the archive to the option "
- "name."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refnamediv><refpurpose>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:32
+ msgid "Preference control file for APT"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:281
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:37
msgid ""
- "Minimum of seconds the Release file should be considered valid after it was "
- "created (indicated by the <literal>Date</literal> header). Use this if you "
- "need to use a seldomly updated (local) mirror of a more regular updated "
- "archive with a <literal>Valid-Until</literal> 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 APT preferences file <filename>/etc/apt/preferences</filename> and the "
+ "fragment files in the <filename>/etc/apt/preferences.d/</filename> folder "
+ "can be used to control which versions of packages will be selected for "
+ "installation."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:292
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:42
msgid ""
- "Try to download deltas called <literal>PDiffs</literal> for Packages or "
- "Sources files instead of downloading whole ones. True by default."
+ "Several versions of a package may be available for installation when the "
+ "&sources-list; file contains references to more than one distribution (for "
+ "example, <literal>stable</literal> and <literal>testing</literal>). APT "
+ "assigns a priority to each version that is available. Subject to dependency "
+ "constraints, <command>apt-get</command> selects the version with the highest "
+ "priority for installation. The APT preferences override the priorities that "
+ "APT assigns to package versions by default, thus giving the user control "
+ "over which one is selected for installation."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:295
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:52
msgid ""
- "Two sub-options to limit the use of PDiffs are also available: With "
- "<literal>FileLimit</literal> can be specified how many PDiff files are "
- "downloaded at most to update a file. <literal>SizeLimit</literal> on the "
- "other hand is the maximum percentage of the size of all patches compared to "
- "the size of the targeted file. If one of these limits is exceeded the "
- "complete file is downloaded instead of the patches."
+ "Several instances of the same version of a package may be available when the "
+ "&sources-list; file contains references to more than one source. In this "
+ "case <command>apt-get</command> downloads the instance listed earliest in "
+ "the &sources-list; file. The APT preferences do not affect the choice of "
+ "instance, only the choice of version."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:305
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:59
msgid ""
- "Queuing mode; <literal>Queue-Mode</literal> can be one of "
- "<literal>host</literal> or <literal>access</literal> which determines how "
- "APT parallelizes outgoing connections. <literal>host</literal> means that "
- "one connection per target host will be opened, <literal>access</literal> "
- "means that one connection per URI type will be opened."
+ "Preferences are a strong power in the hands of a system administrator but "
+ "they can become also their biggest nightmare if used without care! APT will "
+ "not question the preferences, so wrong settings can lead to uninstallable "
+ "packages or wrong decisions while upgrading packages. Even more problems "
+ "will arise if multiple distribution releases are mixed without a good "
+ "understanding of the following paragraphs. Packages included in a specific "
+ "release aren't tested in (and therefore don't always work as expected in) "
+ "older or newer releases, or together with other packages from different "
+ "releases. You have been warned."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:313
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:70
msgid ""
- "Number of retries to perform. If this is non-zero APT will retry failed "
- "files the given number of times."
+ "Note that the files in the <filename>/etc/apt/preferences.d</filename> "
+ "directory are parsed in alphanumeric ascending order and need to obey the "
+ "following naming convention: The files have either no or "
+ "\"<literal>pref</literal>\" as filename extension and only contain "
+ "alphanumeric, hyphen (-), underscore (_) and period (.) characters. "
+ "Otherwise APT will print a notice that it has ignored a file, unless that "
+ "file matches a pattern in the <literal>Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently</literal> "
+ "configuration list - in which case it will be silently ignored."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:318
- msgid ""
- "Use symlinks for source archives. If set to true then source archives will "
- "be symlinked when possible instead of copying. True is the default."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:79
+ msgid "APT's Default Priority Assignments"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:323
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><programlisting>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:94
+ #, no-wrap
msgid ""
- "HTTP URIs; http::Proxy is the default http proxy to use. It is in the "
- "standard form of <literal>http://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/</literal>. Per "
- "host proxies can also be specified by using the form "
- "<literal>http::Proxy::<host></literal> with the special keyword "
- "<literal>DIRECT</literal> meaning to use no proxies. If no one of the above "
- "settings is specified, <envar>http_proxy</envar> environment variable will "
- "be used."
+ "<command>apt-get install -t testing "
+ "<replaceable>some-package</replaceable></command>\n"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:331
- msgid ""
- "Three settings are provided for cache control with HTTP/1.1 compliant proxy "
- "caches. <literal>No-Cache</literal> tells the proxy to not use its cached "
- "response under any circumstances, <literal>Max-Age</literal> is sent only "
- "for index files and tells the cache to refresh its object if it is older "
- "than the given number of seconds. Debian updates its index files daily so "
- "the default is 1 day. <literal>No-Store</literal> specifies that the cache "
- "should never store this request, it is only set for archive files. This may "
- "be useful to prevent polluting a proxy cache with very large .deb "
- "files. Note: Squid 2.0.2 does not support any of these options."
- msgstr ""
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><programlisting>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:97
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "APT::Default-Release \"stable\";\n"
+ msgstr ""
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:341 apt.conf.5.xml:407
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:81
msgid ""
- "The option <literal>timeout</literal> sets the timeout timer used by the "
- "method, this applies to all things including connection timeout and data "
- "timeout."
+ "If there is no preferences file or if there is no entry in the file that "
+ "applies to a particular version then the priority assigned to that version "
+ "is the priority of the distribution to which that version belongs. It is "
+ "possible to single out a distribution, \"the target release\", which "
+ "receives a higher priority than other distributions do by default. The "
+ "target release can be set on the <command>apt-get</command> command line or "
+ "in the APT configuration file <filename>/etc/apt/apt.conf</filename>. Note "
+ "that this has precedence over any general priority you set in the "
+ "<filename>/etc/apt/preferences</filename> file described later, but not over "
+ "specifically pinned packages. For example, <placeholder "
+ "type=\"programlisting\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"programlisting\" "
+ "id=\"1\"/>"
msgstr ""
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para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
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+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:101
msgid ""
- "The setting <literal>Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth</literal> can be used to "
- "enabled HTTP pipeling (RFC 2616 section 8.1.2.2) which can be beneficial "
- "e.g. on high-latency connections. It specifies how many requests are send 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."
+ "If the target release has been specified then APT uses the following "
+ "algorithm to set the priorities of the versions of a package. Assign:"
msgstr ""
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- msgid ""
- "<literal>Acquire::http::AllowRedirect</literal> controls if APT will follow "
- "redirects, which is enabled by default."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:106
+ msgid "priority 1"
msgstr ""
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+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:107
msgid ""
- "The used bandwidth can be limited with "
- "<literal>Acquire::http::Dl-Limit</literal> which accepts integer values in "
- "kilobyte. The default value is 0 which deactivates the limit and tries uses "
- "as much as possible of the bandwidth (Note that this option implicit "
- "deactivates the download from multiple servers at the same time.)"
+ "to the versions coming from archives which in their "
+ "<filename>Release</filename> files are marked as \"NotAutomatic: yes\" but "
+ "<emphasis>not</emphasis> as \"ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes\" like the Debian "
+ "<literal>experimental</literal> archive."
msgstr ""
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- msgid ""
- "<literal>Acquire::http::User-Agent</literal> can be used to set a different "
- "User-Agent for the http download method as some proxies allow access for "
- "clients only if the client uses a known identifier."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:113
+ msgid "priority 100"
msgstr ""
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+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:114
msgid ""
- "HTTPS URIs. Cache-control, Timeout, AllowRedirect, Dl-Limit and proxy "
- "options are the same as for <literal>http</literal> method and will also "
- "default to the options from the <literal>http</literal> method if they are "
- "not explicitly set for https. <literal>Pipeline-Depth</literal> option is "
- "not supported yet."
+ "to the version that is already installed (if any) and to the versions coming "
+ "from archives which in their <filename>Release</filename> files are marked "
+ "as \"NotAutomatic: yes\" and \"ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes\" like the Debian "
+ "backports archive since <literal>squeeze-backports</literal>."
msgstr ""
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- msgid ""
- "<literal>CaInfo</literal> suboption specifies place of file that holds info "
- "about trusted certificates. <literal><host>::CaInfo</literal> is "
- "corresponding per-host option. <literal>Verify-Peer</literal> boolean "
- "suboption determines whether verify server's host certificate against "
- "trusted certificates or not. <literal><host>::Verify-Peer</literal> "
- "is corresponding per-host option. <literal>Verify-Host</literal> boolean "
- "suboption determines whether verify server's hostname or not. "
- "<literal><host>::Verify-Host</literal> is corresponding per-host "
- "option. <literal>SslCert</literal> determines what certificate to use for "
- "client authentication. <literal><host>::SslCert</literal> is "
- "corresponding per-host option. <literal>SslKey</literal> determines what "
- "private key to use for client "
- "authentication. <literal><host>::SslKey</literal> is corresponding "
- "per-host option. <literal>SslForceVersion</literal> overrides default SSL "
- "version to use. Can contain 'TLSv1' or 'SSLv3' string. "
- "<literal><host>::SslForceVersion</literal> is corresponding per-host "
- "option."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:121
+ msgid "priority 500"
msgstr ""
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:391
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:122
msgid ""
- "FTP URIs; ftp::Proxy is the default ftp proxy to use. It is in the standard "
- "form of <literal>ftp://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/</literal>. Per host "
- "proxies can also be specified by using the form "
- "<literal>ftp::Proxy::<host></literal> with the special keyword "
- "<literal>DIRECT</literal> meaning to use no proxies. If no one of the above "
- "settings is specified, <envar>ftp_proxy</envar> environment variable will be "
- "used. To use a ftp proxy you will have to set the "
- "<literal>ftp::ProxyLogin</literal> script in the configuration file. This "
- "entry specifies the commands to send to tell the proxy server what to "
- "connect to. Please see &configureindex; for an example of how to do "
- "this. The substitution variables available are "
- "<literal>$(PROXY_USER)</literal> <literal>$(PROXY_PASS)</literal> "
- "<literal>$(SITE_USER)</literal> <literal>$(SITE_PASS)</literal> "
- "<literal>$(SITE)</literal> and <literal>$(SITE_PORT)</literal> Each is taken "
- "from it's respective URI component."
+ "to the versions that are not installed and do not belong to the target "
+ "release."
msgstr ""
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+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:126
+ msgid "priority 990"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:127
+ msgid "to the versions that are not installed and belong to the target release."
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:132
msgid ""
- "Several settings are provided to control passive mode. Generally it is safe "
- "to leave passive mode on, it works in nearly every environment. However "
- "some situations require that passive mode be disabled and port mode ftp used "
- "instead. This can be done globally, for connections that go through a proxy "
- "or for a specific host (See the sample config file for examples)."
+ "If the target release has not been specified then APT simply assigns "
+ "priority 100 to all installed package versions and priority 500 to all "
+ "uninstalled package versions, except versions coming from archives which in "
+ "their <filename>Release</filename> files are marked as \"NotAutomatic: yes\" "
+ "- these versions get the priority 1 or priority 100 if it is additionally "
+ "marked as \"ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes\"."
msgstr ""
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para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:417
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:139
msgid ""
- "It is possible to proxy FTP over HTTP by setting the "
- "<envar>ftp_proxy</envar> environment variable to a http url - see the "
- "discussion of the http method above for syntax. You cannot set this in the "
- "configuration file and it is not recommended to use FTP over HTTP due to its "
- "low efficiency."
+ "APT then applies the following rules, listed in order of precedence, to "
+ "determine which version of a package to install."
msgstr ""
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+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:142
msgid ""
- "The setting <literal>ForceExtended</literal> controls the use of RFC2428 "
- "<literal>EPSV</literal> and <literal>EPRT</literal> commands. The default is "
- "false, which means these commands are only used if the control connection is "
- "IPv6. Setting this to true forces their use even on IPv4 connections. Note "
- "that most FTP servers do not support RFC2428."
+ "Never downgrade unless the priority of an available version exceeds 1000. "
+ "(\"Downgrading\" is installing a less recent version of a package in place "
+ "of a more recent version. Note that none of APT's default priorities "
+ "exceeds 1000; such high priorities can only be set in the preferences file. "
+ "Note also that downgrading a package can be risky.)"
msgstr ""
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:435
- #, no-wrap
- msgid "/cdrom/::Mount \"foo\";"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:148
+ msgid "Install the highest priority version."
msgstr ""
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+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:149
msgid ""
- "CDROM URIs; the only setting for CDROM URIs is the mount point, "
- "<literal>cdrom::Mount</literal> which must be the mount point for the CDROM "
- "drive as specified in <filename>/etc/fstab</filename>. It is possible to "
- "provide alternate mount and unmount commands if your mount point cannot be "
- "listed in the fstab (such as an SMB mount and old mount packages). The "
- "syntax is to put <placeholder type=\"literallayout\" id=\"0\"/> within the "
- "cdrom block. It is important to have the trailing slash. Unmount commands "
- "can be specified using UMount."
+ "If two or more versions have the same priority, install the most recent one "
+ "(that is, the one with the higher version number)."
msgstr ""
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+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:152
msgid ""
- "GPGV URIs; the only option for GPGV URIs is the option to pass additional "
- "parameters to gpgv. <literal>gpgv::Options</literal> Additional options "
- "passed to gpgv."
+ "If two or more versions have the same priority and version number but either "
+ "the packages differ in some of their metadata or the "
+ "<literal>--reinstall</literal> option is given, install the uninstalled one."
msgstr ""
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- #, no-wrap
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:158
msgid ""
- "Acquire::CompressionTypes::<replaceable>FileExtension</replaceable> "
- "\"<replaceable>Methodname</replaceable>\";"
+ "In a typical situation, the installed version of a package (priority 100) "
+ "is not as recent as one of the versions available from the sources listed in "
+ "the &sources-list; file (priority 500 or 990). Then the package will be "
+ "upgraded when <command>apt-get install "
+ "<replaceable>some-package</replaceable></command> or <command>apt-get "
+ "upgrade</command> is executed."
msgstr ""
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para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
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+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:165
msgid ""
- "List of compression types which are understood by the acquire methods. "
- "Files like <filename>Packages</filename> can be available in various "
- "compression formats. Per default the acquire methods can decompress "
- "<command>bzip2</command>, <command>lzma</command> and "
- "<command>gzip</command> compressed files, with this setting more formats can "
- "be added on the fly or the used method can be changed. The syntax for this "
- "is: <placeholder type=\"synopsis\" id=\"0\"/>"
+ "More rarely, the installed version of a package is <emphasis>more</emphasis> "
+ "recent than any of the other available versions. The package will not be "
+ "downgraded when <command>apt-get install "
+ "<replaceable>some-package</replaceable></command> or <command>apt-get "
+ "upgrade</command> is executed."
msgstr ""
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:457
- #, no-wrap
- msgid "Acquire::CompressionTypes::Order:: \"gz\";"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:170
+ msgid ""
+ "Sometimes the installed version of a package is more recent than the version "
+ "belonging to the target release, but not as recent as a version belonging to "
+ "some other distribution. Such a package will indeed be upgraded when "
+ "<command>apt-get install <replaceable>some-package</replaceable></command> "
+ "or <command>apt-get upgrade</command> is executed, because at least "
+ "<emphasis>one</emphasis> of the available versions has a higher priority "
+ "than the installed version."
msgstr ""
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:460
- #, no-wrap
- msgid "Acquire::CompressionTypes::Order { \"lzma\"; \"gz\"; };"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:179
+ msgid "The Effect of APT Preferences"
msgstr ""
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para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
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+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:181
msgid ""
- "Also the <literal>Order</literal> subgroup can be used to define in which "
- "order the acquire system will try to download the compressed files. The "
- "acquire system will try the first and proceed with the next compression type "
- "in this list on error, so to prefer one over the other type simple add the "
- "preferred type at first - not already added default types will be added at "
- "run time to the end of the list, so e.g. <placeholder type=\"synopsis\" "
- "id=\"0\"/> can be used to prefer <command>gzip</command> compressed files "
- "over <command>bzip2</command> and <command>lzma</command>. If "
- "<command>lzma</command> should be preferred over <command>gzip</command> and "
- "<command>bzip2</command> the configure setting should look like this "
- "<placeholder type=\"synopsis\" id=\"1\"/> It is not needed to add "
- "<literal>bz2</literal> explicit to the list as it will be added automatic."
+ "The APT preferences file allows the system administrator to control the "
+ "assignment of priorities. The file consists of one or more multi-line "
+ "records separated by blank lines. Records can have one of two forms, a "
+ "specific form and a general form."
msgstr ""
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+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:187
+ msgid ""
+ "The specific form assigns a priority (a \"Pin-Priority\") to one or more "
+ "specified packages with a specified version or version range. For example, "
+ "the following record assigns a high priority to all versions of the "
+ "<filename>perl</filename> package whose version number begins with "
+ "\"<literal>&good-perl;</literal>\". Multiple packages can be separated by "
+ "spaces."
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><programlisting>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:194
#, no-wrap
- msgid "Dir::Bin::bzip2 \"/bin/bzip2\";"
+ msgid ""
+ "Package: perl\n"
+ "Pin: version &good-perl;*\n"
+ "Pin-Priority: 1001\n"
msgstr ""
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+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:200
msgid ""
- "Note that at run time the "
- "<literal>Dir::Bin::<replaceable>Methodname</replaceable></literal> will be "
- "checked: If this setting exists the method will only be used if this file "
- "exists, e.g. for the bzip2 method (the inbuilt) setting is: <placeholder "
- "type=\"literallayout\" id=\"0\"/> Note also that list entries specified on "
- "the command line will be added at the end of the list specified in the "
- "configuration files, but before the default entries. To prefer a type in "
- "this case over the ones specified in the configuration files you can set the "
- "option direct - not in list style. This will not override the defined list, "
- "it will only prefix the list with this type."
+ "The general form assigns a priority to all of the package versions in a "
+ "given distribution (that is, to all the versions of packages that are listed "
+ "in a certain <filename>Release</filename> file) or to all of the package "
+ "versions coming from a particular Internet site, as identified by the site's "
+ "fully qualified domain name."
msgstr ""
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+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
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msgid ""
- "The special type <literal>uncompressed</literal> can be used to give "
- "uncompressed files a preference, but note that most archives don't provide "
- "uncompressed files so this is mostly only useable for local mirrors."
+ "This general-form entry in the APT preferences file applies only to groups "
+ "of packages. For example, the following record assigns a high priority to "
+ "all package versions available from the local site."
msgstr ""
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+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><programlisting>
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+ #, no-wrap
msgid ""
- "When downloading <literal>gzip</literal> 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."
+ "Package: *\n"
+ "Pin: origin \"\"\n"
+ "Pin-Priority: 999\n"
msgstr ""
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+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
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msgid ""
- "The Languages subsection controls which <filename>Translation</filename> "
- "files are downloaded and in which order APT tries to display the "
- "Description-Translations. APT will try to display the first available "
- "Description in the Language which is listed at first. Languages can be "
- "defined with their short or long Languagecodes. Note that not all archives "
- "provide <filename>Translation</filename> files for every Language - "
- "especially the long Languagecodes are rare, so please inform you which ones "
- "are available before you set here impossible values."
+ "A note of caution: the keyword used here is \"<literal>origin</literal>\" "
+ "which can be used to match a hostname. The following record will assign a "
+ "high priority to all versions available from the server identified by the "
+ "hostname \"ftp.de.debian.org\""
msgstr ""
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+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
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+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:220
#, no-wrap
- msgid "Acquire::Languages { \"environment\"; \"de\"; \"en\"; \"none\"; \"fr\"; };"
+ msgid ""
+ "Package: *\n"
+ "Pin: origin \"ftp.de.debian.org\"\n"
+ "Pin-Priority: 999\n"
msgstr ""
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msgid ""
- "The default list includes \"environment\" and "
- "\"en\". \"<literal>environment</literal>\" has a special meaning here: It "
- "will be replaced at runtime with the languagecodes extracted from the "
- "<literal>LC_MESSAGES</literal> environment variable. It will also ensure "
- "that these codes are not included twice in the list. If "
- "<literal>LC_MESSAGES</literal> is set to \"C\" only the "
- "<filename>Translation-en</filename> file (if available) will be used. To "
- "force apt to use no Translation file use the setting "
- "<literal>Acquire::Languages=none</literal>. \"<literal>none</literal>\" is "
- "another special meaning code which will stop the search for a fitting "
- "<filename>Translation</filename> file. This can be used by the system "
- "administrator to let APT know that it should download also this files "
- "without actually use them if the environment doesn't specify this "
- "languages. So the following example configuration will result in the order "
- "\"en, de\" in an english and in \"de, en\" in a german localization. Note "
- "that \"fr\" is downloaded, but not used if APT is not used in a french "
- "localization, in such an environment the order would be \"fr, de, en\". "
- "<placeholder type=\"programlisting\" id=\"0\"/>"
+ "This should <emphasis>not</emphasis> be confused with the Origin of a "
+ "distribution as specified in a <filename>Release</filename> file. What "
+ "follows the \"Origin:\" tag in a <filename>Release</filename> file is not an "
+ "Internet address but an author or vendor name, such as \"Debian\" or "
+ "\"Ximian\"."
msgstr ""
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msgid ""
- "Note: To prevent problems resulting from APT being executed in different "
- "environments (e.g. by different users or by other programs) all Translation "
- "files which are found in <filename>/var/lib/apt/lists/</filename> will be "
- "added to the end of the list (after an implicit "
- "\"<literal>none</literal>\")."
- msgstr ""
-
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
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- msgid "Directories"
+ "The following record assigns a low priority to all package versions "
+ "belonging to any distribution whose Archive name is "
+ "\"<literal>unstable</literal>\"."
msgstr ""
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+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><programlisting>
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+ #, no-wrap
msgid ""
- "The <literal>Dir::State</literal> section has directories that pertain to "
- "local state information. <literal>lists</literal> is the directory to place "
- "downloaded package lists in and <literal>status</literal> is the name of the "
- "dpkg status file. <literal>preferences</literal> is the name of the APT "
- "<filename>preferences</filename> file. <literal>Dir::State</literal> "
- "contains the default directory to prefix on all sub items if they do not "
- "start with <filename>/</filename> or <filename>./</filename>."
+ "Package: *\n"
+ "Pin: release a=unstable\n"
+ "Pin-Priority: 50\n"
msgstr ""
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+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:238
msgid ""
- "<literal>Dir::Cache</literal> contains locations pertaining to local cache "
- "information, such as the two package caches <literal>srcpkgcache</literal> "
- "and <literal>pkgcache</literal> as well as the location to place downloaded "
- "archives, <literal>Dir::Cache::archives</literal>. Generation of caches can "
- "be turned off by setting their names to be blank. This will slow down "
- "startup but save disk space. It is probably preferred to turn off the "
- "pkgcache rather than the srcpkgcache. Like <literal>Dir::State</literal> the "
- "default directory is contained in <literal>Dir::Cache</literal>"
+ "The following record assigns a high priority to all package versions "
+ "belonging to any distribution whose Codename is "
+ "\"<literal>&testing-codename;</literal>\"."
msgstr ""
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:530
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><programlisting>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:242
+ #, no-wrap
msgid ""
- "<literal>Dir::Etc</literal> contains the location of configuration files, "
- "<literal>sourcelist</literal> gives the location of the sourcelist and "
- "<literal>main</literal> is the default configuration file (setting has no "
- "effect, unless it is done from the config file specified by "
- "<envar>APT_CONFIG</envar>)."
+ "Package: *\n"
+ "Pin: release n=&testing-codename;\n"
+ "Pin-Priority: 900\n"
msgstr ""
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:536
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:247
msgid ""
- "The <literal>Dir::Parts</literal> setting reads in all the config fragments "
- "in lexical order from the directory specified. After this is done then the "
- "main config file is loaded."
+ "The following record assigns a high priority to all package versions "
+ "belonging to any release whose Archive name is \"<literal>stable</literal>\" "
+ "and whose release Version number is \"<literal>&stable-version;</literal>\"."
msgstr ""
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:540
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><programlisting>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:252
+ #, no-wrap
msgid ""
- "Binary programs are pointed to by "
- "<literal>Dir::Bin</literal>. <literal>Dir::Bin::Methods</literal> specifies "
- "the location of the method handlers and <literal>gzip</literal>, "
- "<literal>bzip2</literal>, <literal>lzma</literal>, <literal>dpkg</literal>, "
- "<literal>apt-get</literal> <literal>dpkg-source</literal> "
- "<literal>dpkg-buildpackage</literal> and <literal>apt-cache</literal> "
- "specify the location of the respective programs."
+ "Package: *\n"
+ "Pin: release a=stable, v=&stable-version;\n"
+ "Pin-Priority: 500\n"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:548
- msgid ""
- "The configuration item <literal>RootDir</literal> has a special meaning. If "
- "set, all paths in <literal>Dir::</literal> will be relative to "
- "<literal>RootDir</literal>, <emphasis>even paths that are specified "
- "absolutely</emphasis>. So, for instance, if <literal>RootDir</literal> is "
- "set to <filename>/tmp/staging</filename> and "
- "<literal>Dir::State::status</literal> is set to "
- "<filename>/var/lib/dpkg/status</filename>, then the status file will be "
- "looked up in <filename>/tmp/staging/var/lib/dpkg/status</filename>."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:262
+ msgid "Regular expressions and &glob; syntax"
msgstr ""
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:561
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:264
msgid ""
- "The <literal>Ignore-Files-Silently</literal> list can be used to specify "
- "which files APT should silently ignore while parsing the files in the "
- "fragment directories. Per default a file which end with "
- "<literal>.disabled</literal>, <literal>~</literal>, <literal>.bak</literal> "
- "or <literal>.dpkg-[a-z]+</literal> is silently ignored. As seen in the last "
- "default value these patterns can use regular expression syntax."
+ "APT also supports pinning by &glob; expressions, and regular expressions "
+ "surrounded by slashes. For example, the following example assigns the "
+ "priority 500 to all packages from experimental where the name starts with "
+ "gnome (as a &glob;-like expression) or contains the word kde (as a POSIX "
+ "extended regular expression surrounded by slashes)."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:570
- msgid "APT in DSelect"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><programlisting>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:273
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid ""
+ "Package: gnome* /kde/\n"
+ "Pin: release n=experimental\n"
+ "Pin-Priority: 500\n"
msgstr ""
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:572
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:279
msgid ""
- "When APT is used as a &dselect; method several configuration directives "
- "control the default behaviour. These are in the <literal>DSelect</literal> "
- "section."
+ "The rule for those expressions is that they can occur anywhere where a "
+ "string can occur. Thus, the following pin assigns the priority 990 to all "
+ "packages from a release starting with &ubuntu-codename;."
msgstr ""
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:577
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><programlisting>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:285
+ #, no-wrap
msgid ""
- "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."
+ "Package: *\n"
+ "Pin: release n=&ubuntu-codename;*\n"
+ "Pin-Priority: 990\n"
msgstr ""
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variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:586
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:291
msgid ""
- "The contents of this variable is passed to &apt-get; as command line options "
- "when it is run for the install phase."
+ "If a regular expression occurs in a <literal>Package</literal> field, the "
+ "behavior is the same as if this regular expression were replaced with a list "
+ "of all package names it matches. It is undecided whether this will change in "
+ "the future; thus you should always list wild-card pins first, so later "
+ "specific pins override it. The pattern \"<literal>*</literal>\" in a "
+ "Package field is not considered a &glob; expression in itself."
msgstr ""
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:591
- msgid ""
- "The contents of this variable is passed to &apt-get; as command line options "
- "when it is run for the update phase."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:307
+ msgid "How APT Interprets Priorities"
msgstr ""
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variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:596
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:310
msgid ""
- "If true the [U]pdate operation in &dselect; will always prompt to continue. "
- "The default is to prompt only on error."
+ "Priorities (P) assigned in the APT preferences file must be positive or "
+ "negative integers. They are interpreted as follows (roughly speaking):"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:602
- msgid "How APT calls dpkg"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:315
+ msgid "P > 1000"
msgstr ""
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:603
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:316
msgid ""
- "Several configuration directives control how APT invokes &dpkg;. These are "
- "in the <literal>DPkg</literal> section."
+ "causes a version to be installed even if this constitutes a downgrade of the "
+ "package"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:608
- msgid ""
- "This is a list of options to pass to dpkg. The options must be specified "
- "using the list notation and each list item is passed as a single argument to "
- "&dpkg;."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:320
+ msgid "990 < P <=1000"
msgstr ""
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:614
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:321
msgid ""
- "This is a list of shell commands to run before/after invoking &dpkg;. Like "
- "<literal>options</literal> this must be specified in list notation. The "
- "commands are invoked in order using <filename>/bin/sh</filename>, should any "
- "fail APT will abort."
+ "causes a version to be installed even if it does not come from the target "
+ "release, unless the installed version is more recent"
msgstr ""
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:621
- msgid ""
- "This is a list of shell commands to run before invoking dpkg. Like "
- "<literal>options</literal> this must be specified in list notation. The "
- "commands are invoked in order using <filename>/bin/sh</filename>, should any "
- "fail APT will abort. APT will pass to the commands on standard input the "
- "filenames of all .deb files it is going to install, one per line."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:326
+ msgid "500 < P <=990"
msgstr ""
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:627
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:327
msgid ""
- "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 2 is enabled by setting "
- "<literal>DPkg::Tools::options::cmd::Version</literal> to "
- "2. <literal>cmd</literal> is a command given to "
- "<literal>Pre-Install-Pkgs</literal>."
+ "causes a version to be installed unless there is a version available "
+ "belonging to the target release or the installed version is more recent"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:635
- msgid ""
- "APT chdirs to this directory before invoking dpkg, the default is "
- "<filename>/</filename>."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:332
+ msgid "100 < P <=500"
msgstr ""
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:640
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:333
msgid ""
- "These options are passed to &dpkg-buildpackage; when compiling packages, the "
- "default is to disable signing and produce all binaries."
+ "causes a version to be installed unless there is a version available "
+ "belonging to some other distribution or the installed version is more recent"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:645
- msgid "dpkg trigger usage (and related options)"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:338
+ msgid "0 < P <=100"
msgstr ""
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:646
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:339
msgid ""
- "APT can call dpkg in a way so it can make aggressive use of triggers over "
- "multiple calls of dpkg. Without further options dpkg will use triggers only "
- "in between his own run. Activating these options can therefore decrease the "
- "time needed to perform the install / upgrade. Note that it is intended to "
- "activate these options per default in the future, but as it changes the way "
- "APT calling dpkg drastically it needs a lot more testing. <emphasis>These "
- "options are therefore currently experimental and should not be used in "
- "productive environments.</emphasis> Also it breaks the progress reporting so "
- "all frontends will currently stay around half (or more) of the time in the "
- "100% state while it actually configures all packages."
+ "causes a version to be installed only if there is no installed version of "
+ "the package"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><literallayout>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:661
- #, no-wrap
- msgid ""
- "DPkg::NoTriggers \"true\";\n"
- "PackageManager::Configure \"smart\";\n"
- "DPkg::ConfigurePending \"true\";\n"
- "DPkg::TriggersPending \"true\";"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:343
+ msgid "P < 0"
msgstr ""
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:655
- msgid ""
- "Note that it is not guaranteed that APT will support these options or that "
- "these options will not cause (big) trouble in the future. If you have "
- "understand the current risks and problems with these options, but are brave "
- "enough to help testing them create a new configuration file and test a "
- "combination of options. Please report any bugs, problems and improvements "
- "you encounter and make sure to note which options you have used in your "
- "reports. Asking dpkg for help could also be useful for debugging proposes, "
- "see e.g. <command>dpkg --audit</command>. A defensive option combination "
- "would be <placeholder type=\"literallayout\" id=\"0\"/>"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:344
+ msgid "prevents the version from being installed"
msgstr ""
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:668
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:349
msgid ""
- "Add the no triggers flag to all dpkg calls (except the ConfigurePending "
- "call). See &dpkg; if you are interested in what this actually means. In "
- "short: dpkg will not run the triggers when this flag is present unless it is "
- "explicitly called to do so in an extra call. Note that this option exists "
- "(undocumented) also in older apt versions with a slightly different meaning: "
- "Previously these option only append --no-triggers to the configure calls to "
- "dpkg - now apt will add these flag also to the unpack and remove calls."
+ "If any specific-form records match an available package version then the "
+ "first such record determines the priority of the package version. Failing "
+ "that, if any general-form records match an available package version then "
+ "the first such record determines the priority of the package version."
msgstr ""
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:676
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:355
msgid ""
- "Valid values are \"<literal>all</literal>\", \"<literal>smart</literal>\" "
- "and \"<literal>no</literal>\". \"<literal>all</literal>\" is the default "
- "value and causes APT to configure all packages explicit. The "
- "\"<literal>smart</literal>\" way is it to configure only packages which need "
- "to be configured before another package can be unpacked (Pre-Depends) and "
- "let the rest configure by dpkg with a call generated by the next "
- "option. \"<literal>no</literal>\" on the other hand will not configure "
- "anything and totally rely on dpkg for configuration (which will at the "
- "moment fail if a Pre-Depends is encountered). Setting this option to "
- "another than the all value will implicitly activate also the next option per "
- "default as otherwise the system could end in an unconfigured status which "
- "could be unbootable!"
+ "For example, suppose the APT preferences file contains the three records "
+ "presented earlier:"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:687
- msgid ""
- "If this option is set apt will call <command>dpkg --configure "
- "--pending</command> to let dpkg handle all required configurations and "
- "triggers. This option is activated automatic per default if the previous "
- "option is not set to <literal>all</literal>, but deactivating could be "
- "useful if you want to run APT multiple times in a row - e.g. in an "
- "installer. In these sceneries you could deactivate this option in all but "
- "the last run."
- msgstr ""
-
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:694
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><programlisting>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:359
+ #, no-wrap
msgid ""
- "Useful for <literal>smart</literal> configuration as a package which has "
- "pending triggers is not considered as <literal>installed</literal> and dpkg "
- "treats them as <literal>unpacked</literal> currently which is a dealbreaker "
- "for Pre-Dependencies (see debbugs #526774). Note that this will process all "
- "triggers, not only the triggers needed to configure this package."
+ "Package: perl\n"
+ "Pin: version &good-perl;*\n"
+ "Pin-Priority: 1001\n"
+ "\n"
+ "Package: *\n"
+ "Pin: origin \"\"\n"
+ "Pin-Priority: 999\n"
+ "\n"
+ "Package: *\n"
+ "Pin: release unstable\n"
+ "Pin-Priority: 50\n"
msgstr ""
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- msgid ""
- "As the configuration can be deferred to be done at the end by dpkg it can be "
- "tried to order the unpack series only by critical needs, e.g. by "
- "Pre-Depends. Default is true and therefore the \"old\" method of ordering in "
- "various steps by everything. While both method were present in earlier APT "
- "versions the <literal>OrderCritical</literal> method was unused, so this "
- "method is very experimental and needs further improvements before becoming "
- "really useful."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:372
+ msgid "Then:"
msgstr ""
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- #, no-wrap
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
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msgid ""
- "OrderList::Score {\n"
- "\tDelete 500;\n"
- "\tEssential 200;\n"
- "\tImmediate 10;\n"
- "\tPreDepends 50;\n"
- "};"
+ "The most recent available version of the <literal>perl</literal> package "
+ "will be installed, so long as that version's version number begins with "
+ "\"<literal>&good-perl;</literal>\". If <emphasis>any</emphasis> "
+ "&good-perl;* version of <literal>perl</literal> is available and the "
+ "installed version is &bad-perl;*, then <literal>perl</literal> will be "
+ "downgraded."
msgstr ""
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+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
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msgid ""
- "Essential packages (and there dependencies) should be configured immediately "
- "after unpacking. It will be a good idea to do this quite early in the "
- "upgrade process as these these configure calls require currently also "
- "<literal>DPkg::TriggersPending</literal> which will run quite a few triggers "
- "(which maybe not needed). Essentials get per default a high score but the "
- "immediate flag is relatively low (a package which has a Pre-Depends is "
- "higher rated). These option and the others in the same group can be used to "
- "change the scoring. The following example shows the settings with there "
- "default values. <placeholder type=\"literallayout\" id=\"0\"/>"
- msgstr ""
-
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:728
- msgid "Periodic and Archives options"
+ "A version of any package other than <literal>perl</literal> that is "
+ "available from the local system has priority over other versions, even "
+ "versions belonging to the target release."
msgstr ""
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+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
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msgid ""
- "<literal>APT::Periodic</literal> and <literal>APT::Archives</literal> groups "
- "of options configure behavior of apt periodic updates, which is done by "
- "<literal>/etc/cron.daily/apt</literal> script. See header of this script for "
- "the brief documentation of these options."
+ "A version of a package whose origin is not the local system but some other "
+ "site listed in &sources-list; and which belongs to an "
+ "<literal>unstable</literal> distribution is only installed if it is selected "
+ "for installation and no version of the package is already installed."
msgstr ""
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:737
- msgid "Debug options"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:393
+ msgid "Determination of Package Version and Distribution Properties"
msgstr ""
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- #: apt.conf.5.xml:739
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:395
msgid ""
- "Enabling options in the <literal>Debug::</literal> section will cause "
- "debugging information to be sent to the standard error stream of the program "
- "utilizing the <literal>apt</literal> libraries, or enable special program "
- "modes that are primarily useful for debugging the behavior of "
- "<literal>apt</literal>. Most of these options are not interesting to a "
- "normal user, but a few may be:"
+ "The locations listed in the &sources-list; file should provide "
+ "<filename>Packages</filename> and <filename>Release</filename> files to "
+ "describe the packages available at that location."
msgstr ""
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para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:750
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:399
msgid ""
- "<literal>Debug::pkgProblemResolver</literal> enables output about the "
- "decisions made by <literal>dist-upgrade, upgrade, install, remove, "
- "purge</literal>."
+ "The <filename>Packages</filename> file is normally found in the directory "
+ "<filename>.../dists/<replaceable>dist-name</replaceable>/<replaceable>component</replaceable>/<replaceable>arch</replaceable></filename>: "
+ "for example, "
+ "<filename>.../dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages</filename>. It "
+ "consists of a series of multi-line records, one for each package available "
+ "in that directory. Only two lines in each record are relevant for setting "
+ "APT priorities:"
msgstr ""
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- msgid ""
- "<literal>Debug::NoLocking</literal> disables all file locking. This can be "
- "used to run some operations (for instance, <literal>apt-get -s "
- "install</literal>) as a non-root user."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:407
+ msgid "the <literal>Package:</literal> line"
msgstr ""
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- msgid ""
- "<literal>Debug::pkgDPkgPM</literal> prints out the actual command line each "
- "time that <literal>apt</literal> invokes &dpkg;."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:408
+ msgid "gives the package name"
msgstr ""
- #. TODO: provide a
- #. motivating example, except I haven't a clue why you'd want
- #. to do this.
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:775
- msgid ""
- "<literal>Debug::IdentCdrom</literal> disables the inclusion of statfs data "
- "in CDROM IDs."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:411 apt_preferences.5.xml:461
+ msgid "the <literal>Version:</literal> line"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:785
- msgid "A full list of debugging options to apt follows."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:412
+ msgid "gives the version number for the named package"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:794
- msgid "Print information related to accessing <literal>cdrom://</literal> sources."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:417
+ msgid ""
+ "The <filename>Release</filename> file is normally found in the directory "
+ "<filename>.../dists/<replaceable>dist-name</replaceable></filename>: for "
+ "example, <filename>.../dists/stable/Release</filename>, or "
+ "<filename>.../dists/&stable-codename;/Release</filename>. It consists of a "
+ "single multi-line record which applies to <emphasis>all</emphasis> of the "
+ "packages in the directory tree below its parent. Unlike the "
+ "<filename>Packages</filename> file, nearly all of the lines in a "
+ "<filename>Release</filename> file are relevant for setting APT priorities:"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:805
- msgid "Print information related to downloading packages using FTP."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:428
+ msgid "the <literal>Archive:</literal> or <literal>Suite:</literal> line"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:816
- msgid "Print information related to downloading packages using HTTP."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:429
+ msgid ""
+ "names the archive to which all the packages in the directory tree belong. "
+ "For example, the line \"Archive: stable\" or \"Suite: stable\" specifies "
+ "that all of the packages in the directory tree below the parent of the "
+ "<filename>Release</filename> file are in a <literal>stable</literal> "
+ "archive. Specifying this value in the APT preferences file would require "
+ "the line:"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:827
- msgid "Print information related to downloading packages using HTTPS."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><programlisting>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:439
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "Pin: release a=stable\n"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:838
- msgid ""
- "Print information related to verifying cryptographic signatures using "
- "<literal>gpg</literal>."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:445
+ msgid "the <literal>Codename:</literal> line"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:849
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:446
msgid ""
- "Output information about the process of accessing collections of packages "
- "stored on CD-ROMs."
+ "names the codename to which all the packages in the directory tree belong. "
+ "For example, the line \"Codename: &testing-codename;\" specifies that all of "
+ "the packages in the directory tree below the parent of the "
+ "<filename>Release</filename> file belong to a version named "
+ "<literal>&testing-codename;</literal>. Specifying this value in the APT "
+ "preferences file would require the line:"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:859
- msgid "Describes the process of resolving build-dependencies in &apt-get;."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><programlisting>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:455
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "Pin: release n=&testing-codename;\n"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:869
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:462
msgid ""
- "Output each cryptographic hash that is generated by the "
- "<literal>apt</literal> libraries."
+ "names the release version. For example, the packages in the tree might "
+ "belong to Debian release version &stable-version;. Note that there is "
+ "normally no version number for the <literal>testing</literal> and "
+ "<literal>unstable</literal> distributions because they have not been "
+ "released yet. Specifying this in the APT preferences file would require one "
+ "of the following lines."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:879
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><programlisting>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:471
+ #, no-wrap
msgid ""
- "Do not include information from <literal>statfs</literal>, namely the number "
- "of used and free blocks on the CD-ROM filesystem, when generating an ID for "
- "a CD-ROM."
+ "Pin: release v=&stable-version;\n"
+ "Pin: release a=stable, v=&stable-version;\n"
+ "Pin: release &stable-version;\n"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:890
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:480
+ msgid "the <literal>Component:</literal> line"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:481
msgid ""
- "Disable all file locking. For instance, this will allow two instances of "
- "<quote><literal>apt-get update</literal></quote> to run at the same time."
+ "names the licensing component associated with the packages in the directory "
+ "tree of the <filename>Release</filename> file. For example, the line "
+ "\"Component: main\" specifies that all the packages in the directory tree "
+ "are from the <literal>main</literal> component, which entails that they are "
+ "licensed under terms listed in the Debian Free Software Guidelines. "
+ "Specifying this component in the APT preferences file would require the "
+ "line:"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:902
- msgid "Log when items are added to or removed from the global download queue."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><programlisting>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:490
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "Pin: release c=main\n"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:912
- msgid ""
- "Output status messages and errors related to verifying checksums and "
- "cryptographic signatures of downloaded files."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:496
+ msgid "the <literal>Origin:</literal> line"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:922
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:497
msgid ""
- "Output information about downloading and applying package index list diffs, "
- "and errors relating to package index list diffs."
+ "names the originator of the packages in the directory tree of the "
+ "<filename>Release</filename> file. Most commonly, this is "
+ "<literal>Debian</literal>. Specifying this origin in the APT preferences "
+ "file would require the line:"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:934
- msgid ""
- "Output information related to patching apt package lists when downloading "
- "index diffs instead of full indices."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><programlisting>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:503
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "Pin: release o=Debian\n"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:945
- msgid "Log all interactions with the sub-processes that actually perform downloads."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:509
+ msgid "the <literal>Label:</literal> line"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:956
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:510
msgid ""
- "Log events related to the automatically-installed status of packages and to "
- "the removal of unused packages."
+ "names the label of the packages in the directory tree of the "
+ "<filename>Release</filename> file. Most commonly, this is "
+ "<literal>Debian</literal>. Specifying this label in the APT preferences "
+ "file would require the line:"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:966
- msgid ""
- "Generate debug messages describing which packages are being automatically "
- "installed to resolve dependencies. This corresponds to the initial "
- "auto-install pass performed in, e.g., <literal>apt-get install</literal>, "
- "and not to the full <literal>apt</literal> dependency resolver; see "
- "<literal>Debug::pkgProblemResolver</literal> for that."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><programlisting>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:516
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "Pin: release l=Debian\n"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:980
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:523
msgid ""
- "Generate debug messages describing which package is marked as "
- "keep/install/remove while the ProblemResolver does his work. Each addition "
- "or deletion may trigger additional actions; they are shown indented two "
- "additional space under the original entry. The format for each line is "
- "<literal>MarkKeep</literal>, <literal>MarkDelete</literal> or "
- "<literal>MarkInstall</literal> followed by <literal>package-name <a.b.c "
- "-> d.e.f | x.y.z> (section)</literal> where <literal>a.b.c</literal> "
- "is the current version of the package, <literal>d.e.f</literal> is the "
- "version considered for installation and <literal>x.y.z</literal> is a newer "
- "version, but not considered for installation (because of a low pin "
- "score). The later two can be omitted if there is none or if it is the same "
- "version as the installed. <literal>section</literal> is the name of the "
- "section the package appears in."
+ "All of the <filename>Packages</filename> and <filename>Release</filename> "
+ "files retrieved from locations listed in the &sources-list; file are stored "
+ "in the directory <filename>/var/lib/apt/lists</filename>, or in the file "
+ "named by the variable <literal>Dir::State::Lists</literal> in the "
+ "<filename>apt.conf</filename> file. For example, the file "
+ "<filename>debian.lcs.mit.edu_debian_dists_unstable_contrib_binary-i386_Release</filename> "
+ "contains the <filename>Release</filename> file retrieved from the site "
+ "<literal>debian.lcs.mit.edu</literal> for <literal>binary-i386</literal> "
+ "architecture files from the <literal>contrib</literal> component of the "
+ "<literal>unstable</literal> distribution."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:1002
- msgid "Dump the default configuration to standard error on startup."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:536
+ msgid "Optional Lines in an APT Preferences Record"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:1012
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:538
msgid ""
- "When invoking &dpkg;, output the precise command line with which it is being "
- "invoked, with arguments separated by a single space character."
+ "Each record in the APT preferences file can optionally begin with one or "
+ "more lines beginning with the word <literal>Explanation:</literal>. This "
+ "provides a place for comments."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:1023
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:547
+ msgid "Tracking Stable"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><programlisting>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:555
+ #, no-wrap
msgid ""
- "Output all the data received from &dpkg; on the status file descriptor and "
- "any errors encountered while parsing it."
+ "Explanation: Uninstall or do not install any Debian-originated\n"
+ "Explanation: package versions other than those in the stable distro\n"
+ "Package: *\n"
+ "Pin: release a=stable\n"
+ "Pin-Priority: 900\n"
+ "\n"
+ "Package: *\n"
+ "Pin: release o=Debian\n"
+ "Pin-Priority: -10\n"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:1034
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:549
msgid ""
- "Generate a trace of the algorithm that decides the order in which "
- "<literal>apt</literal> should pass packages to &dpkg;."
+ "The following APT preferences file will cause APT to assign a priority "
+ "higher than the default (500) to all package versions belonging to a "
+ "<literal>stable</literal> distribution and a prohibitively low priority to "
+ "package versions belonging to other <literal>Debian</literal> "
+ "distributions. <placeholder type=\"programlisting\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:1046
- msgid "Output status messages tracing the steps performed when invoking &dpkg;."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><programlisting>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:572 apt_preferences.5.xml:618 apt_preferences.5.xml:676
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid ""
+ "apt-get install <replaceable>package-name</replaceable>\n"
+ "apt-get upgrade\n"
+ "apt-get dist-upgrade\n"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:1057
- msgid "Output the priority of each package list on startup."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:567
+ msgid ""
+ "With a suitable &sources-list; file and the above preferences file, any of "
+ "the following commands will cause APT to upgrade to the latest "
+ "<literal>stable</literal> version(s). <placeholder type=\"programlisting\" "
+ "id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:1067
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><programlisting>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:584
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "apt-get install <replaceable>package</replaceable>/testing\n"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:578
msgid ""
- "Trace the execution of the dependency resolver (this applies only to what "
- "happens when a complex dependency problem is encountered)."
+ "The following command will cause APT to upgrade the specified package to the "
+ "latest version from the <literal>testing</literal> distribution; the package "
+ "will not be upgraded again unless this command is given again. <placeholder "
+ "type=\"programlisting\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:1078
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:590
+ msgid "Tracking Testing or Unstable"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><programlisting>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:599
+ #, no-wrap
msgid ""
- "Display a list of all installed packages with their calculated score used by "
- "the pkgProblemResolver. The description of the package is the same as "
- "described in <literal>Debug::pkgDepCache::Marker</literal>"
+ "Package: *\n"
+ "Pin: release a=testing\n"
+ "Pin-Priority: 900\n"
+ "\n"
+ "Package: *\n"
+ "Pin: release a=unstable\n"
+ "Pin-Priority: 800\n"
+ "\n"
+ "Package: *\n"
+ "Pin: release o=Debian\n"
+ "Pin-Priority: -10\n"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:1090
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:592
msgid ""
- "Print information about the vendors read from "
- "<filename>/etc/apt/vendors.list</filename>."
+ "The following APT preferences file will cause APT to assign a high priority "
+ "to package versions from the <literal>testing</literal> distribution, a "
+ "lower priority to package versions from the <literal>unstable</literal> "
+ "distribution, and a prohibitively low priority to package versions from "
+ "other <literal>Debian</literal> distributions. <placeholder "
+ "type=\"programlisting\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:1113
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:613
msgid ""
- "&configureindex; is a configuration file showing example values for all "
- "possible options."
+ "With a suitable &sources-list; file and the above preferences file, any of "
+ "the following commands will cause APT to upgrade to the latest "
+ "<literal>testing</literal> version(s). <placeholder type=\"programlisting\" "
+ "id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""
- #. ? reading apt.conf
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt.conf.5.xml:1125
- msgid "&apt-cache;, &apt-config;, &apt-preferences;."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><programlisting>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:633
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "apt-get install <replaceable>package</replaceable>/unstable\n"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refnamediv><refpurpose>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:32
- msgid "Preference control file for APT"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:624
+ msgid ""
+ "The following command will cause APT to upgrade the specified package to the "
+ "latest version from the <literal>unstable</literal> distribution. "
+ "Thereafter, <command>apt-get upgrade</command> will upgrade the package to "
+ "the most recent <literal>testing</literal> version if that is more recent "
+ "than the installed version, otherwise, to the most recent "
+ "<literal>unstable</literal> version if that is more recent than the "
+ "installed version. <placeholder type=\"programlisting\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:37
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:640
+ msgid "Tracking the evolution of a codename release"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><programlisting>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:654
+ #, no-wrap
msgid ""
- "The APT preferences file <filename>/etc/apt/preferences</filename> and the "
- "fragment files in the <filename>/etc/apt/preferences.d/</filename> folder "
- "can be used to control which versions of packages will be selected for "
- "installation."
+ "Explanation: Uninstall or do not install any Debian-originated package "
+ "versions\n"
+ "Explanation: other than those in the distribution codenamed with "
+ "&testing-codename; or sid\n"
+ "Package: *\n"
+ "Pin: release n=&testing-codename;\n"
+ "Pin-Priority: 900\n"
+ "\n"
+ "Explanation: Debian unstable is always codenamed with sid\n"
+ "Package: *\n"
+ "Pin: release n=sid\n"
+ "Pin-Priority: 800\n"
+ "\n"
+ "Package: *\n"
+ "Pin: release o=Debian\n"
+ "Pin-Priority: -10\n"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:42
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:642
msgid ""
- "Several versions of a package may be available for installation when the "
- "&sources-list; file contains references to more than one distribution (for "
- "example, <literal>stable</literal> and <literal>testing</literal>). APT "
- "assigns a priority to each version that is available. Subject to dependency "
- "constraints, <command>apt-get</command> selects the version with the highest "
- "priority for installation. The APT preferences file overrides the "
- "priorities that APT assigns to package versions by default, thus giving the "
- "user control over which one is selected for installation."
+ "The following APT preferences file will cause APT to assign a priority "
+ "higher than the default (500) to all package versions belonging to a "
+ "specified codename of a distribution and a prohibitively low priority to "
+ "package versions belonging to other <literal>Debian</literal> distributions, "
+ "codenames and archives. Note that with this APT preference APT will follow "
+ "the migration of a release from the archive <literal>testing</literal> to "
+ "<literal>stable</literal> and later <literal>oldstable</literal>. If you "
+ "want to follow for example the progress in <literal>testing</literal> "
+ "notwithstanding the codename changes you should use the example "
+ "configurations above. <placeholder type=\"programlisting\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:52
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:671
msgid ""
- "Several instances of the same version of a package may be available when the "
- "&sources-list; file contains references to more than one source. In this "
- "case <command>apt-get</command> downloads the instance listed earliest in "
- "the &sources-list; file. The APT preferences file does not affect the "
- "choice of instance, only the choice of version."
+ "With a suitable &sources-list; file and the above preferences file, any of "
+ "the following commands will cause APT to upgrade to the latest version(s) in "
+ "the release codenamed with <literal>&testing-codename;</literal>. "
+ "<placeholder type=\"programlisting\" id=\"0\"/>"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><programlisting>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:691
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "apt-get install <replaceable>package</replaceable>/sid\n"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:682
+ msgid ""
+ "The following command will cause APT to upgrade the specified package to the "
+ "latest version from the <literal>sid</literal> distribution. Thereafter, "
+ "<command>apt-get upgrade</command> will upgrade the package to the most "
+ "recent <literal>&testing-codename;</literal> version if that is more recent "
+ "than the installed version, otherwise, to the most recent "
+ "<literal>sid</literal> version if that is more recent than the installed "
+ "version. <placeholder type=\"programlisting\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:59
+ #: apt_preferences.5.xml:706
+ msgid "&apt-get; &apt-cache; &apt-conf; &sources-list;"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refnamediv><refpurpose>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:33
+ msgid "List of configured APT data sources"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:38
msgid ""
- "Preferences are a strong power in the hands of a system administrator but "
- "they can become also their biggest nightmare if used without care! APT will "
- "not questioning the preferences so wrong settings will therefore lead to "
- "uninstallable packages or wrong decisions while upgrading packages. Even "
- "more problems will arise if multiply distribution releases are mixed without "
- "a good understanding of the following paragraphs. Packages included in a "
- "specific release aren't tested in and therefore doesn't always work as "
- "expected in older or newer releases or together with other packages from "
- "different releases. You have been warned."
+ "The source list <filename>/etc/apt/sources.list</filename> is designed to "
+ "support any number of active sources and a variety of source media. The file "
+ "lists one source per line, with the most preferred source listed first. The "
+ "information available from the configured sources is acquired by "
+ "<command>apt-get update</command> (or by an equivalent command from another "
+ "APT front-end)."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:70
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:45
msgid ""
- "Note that the files in the <filename>/etc/apt/preferences.d</filename> "
- "directory are parsed in alphanumeric ascending order and need to obey the "
- "following naming convention: The files have either no or "
- "\"<literal>pref</literal>\" as filename extension and only contain "
- "alphanumeric, hyphen (-), underscore (_) and period (.) characters. "
- "Otherwise APT will print a notice that it has ignored a file if the file "
- "doesn't match a pattern in the <literal>Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently</literal> "
- "configuration list - in this case it will be silently ignored."
+ "Each line specifying a source starts with type "
+ "(e.g. <literal>deb-src</literal>) followed by options and arguments for "
+ "this type. Individual entries cannot be continued onto a following "
+ "line. Empty lines are ignored, and a <literal>#</literal> character anywhere "
+ "on a line marks the remainder of that line as a comment."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:79
- msgid "APT's Default Priority Assignments"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:53
+ msgid "sources.list.d"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:94
- #, no-wrap
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:54
msgid ""
- "<command>apt-get install -t testing "
- "<replaceable>some-package</replaceable></command>\n"
+ "The <filename>/etc/apt/sources.list.d</filename> directory provides a way to "
+ "add sources.list entries in separate files. The format is the same as for "
+ "the regular <filename>sources.list</filename> file. File names need to end "
+ "with <filename>.list</filename> and may only contain letters (a-z and A-Z), "
+ "digits (0-9), underscore (_), hyphen (-) and period (.) characters. "
+ "Otherwise APT will print a notice that it has ignored a file, unless that "
+ "file matches a pattern in the <literal>Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently</literal> "
+ "configuration list - in which case it will be silently ignored."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:97
- #, no-wrap
- msgid "APT::Default-Release \"stable\";\n"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:65
+ msgid "The deb and deb-src types"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:81
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:66
msgid ""
- "If there is no preferences file or if there is no entry in the file that "
- "applies to a particular version then the priority assigned to that version "
- "is the priority of the distribution to which that version belongs. It is "
- "possible to single out a distribution, \"the target release\", which "
- "receives a higher priority than other distributions do by default. The "
- "target release can be set on the <command>apt-get</command> command line or "
- "in the APT configuration file <filename>/etc/apt/apt.conf</filename>. Note "
- "that this has precedence over any general priority you set in the "
- "<filename>/etc/apt/preferences</filename> file described later, but not over "
- "specifically pinned packages. For example, <placeholder "
- "type=\"programlisting\" id=\"0\"/> <placeholder type=\"programlisting\" "
- "id=\"1\"/>"
+ "The <literal>deb</literal> type references a typical two-level Debian "
+ "archive, <filename>distribution/component</filename>. The "
+ "<literal>distribution</literal> is generally an archive name like "
+ "<literal>stable</literal> or <literal>testing</literal> or a codename like "
+ "<literal>&stable-codename;</literal> or "
+ "<literal>&testing-codename;</literal> while component is one of "
+ "<literal>main</literal>, <literal>contrib</literal> or "
+ "<literal>non-free</literal>. The <literal>deb-src</literal> type references "
+ "a Debian distribution's source code in the same form as the "
+ "<literal>deb</literal> type. A <literal>deb-src</literal> line is required "
+ "to fetch source indexes."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:101
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:78
msgid ""
- "If the target release has been specified then APT uses the following "
- "algorithm to set the priorities of the versions of a package. Assign:"
+ "The format for a <filename>sources.list</filename> entry using the "
+ "<literal>deb</literal> and <literal>deb-src</literal> types is:"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:106
- msgid "priority 1"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><literallayout>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:81
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "deb [ options ] uri distribution [component1] [component2] [...]"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:107
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:83
msgid ""
- "to the versions coming from archives which in their "
- "<filename>Release</filename> files are marked as \"NotAutomatic: yes\" but "
- "<emphasis>not</emphasis> as \"ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes\" like the debian "
- "<literal>experimental</literal> archive."
+ "The URI for the <literal>deb</literal> type must specify the base of the "
+ "Debian distribution, from which APT will find the information it needs. "
+ "<literal>distribution</literal> can specify an exact path, in which case the "
+ "components must be omitted and <literal>distribution</literal> must end with "
+ "a slash (<literal>/</literal>). This is useful for the case when only a "
+ "particular sub-section of the archive denoted by the URI is of interest. If "
+ "<literal>distribution</literal> does not specify an exact path, at least one "
+ "<literal>component</literal> must be present."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:113
- msgid "priority 100"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:92
+ msgid ""
+ "<literal>distribution</literal> may also contain a variable, "
+ "<literal>$(ARCH)</literal> which expands to the Debian architecture (such as "
+ "<literal>amd64</literal> or <literal>armel</literal>) used on the "
+ "system. This permits architecture-independent "
+ "<filename>sources.list</filename> files to be used. In general this is only "
+ "of interest when specifying an exact path, <literal>APT</literal> will "
+ "automatically generate a URI with the current architecture otherwise."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:114
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:100
msgid ""
- "to the version that is already installed (if any) and to the versions coming "
- "from archives which in their <filename>Release</filename> files are marked "
- "as \"NotAutomatic: yes\" and \"ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes\" like the debian "
- "backports archive since <literal>squeeze-backports</literal>."
+ "Since only one distribution can be specified per line it may be necessary to "
+ "have multiple lines for the same URI, if a subset of all available "
+ "distributions or components at that location is desired. APT will sort the "
+ "URI list after it has generated a complete set internally, and will collapse "
+ "multiple references to the same Internet host, for instance, into a single "
+ "connection, so that it does not inefficiently establish an FTP connection, "
+ "close it, do something else, and then re-establish a connection to that same "
+ "host. This feature is useful for accessing busy FTP sites with limits on the "
+ "number of simultaneous anonymous users. APT also parallelizes connections to "
+ "different hosts to more effectively deal with sites with low bandwidth."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:121
- msgid "priority 500"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:112
+ msgid ""
+ "<literal>options</literal> is always optional and needs to be surrounded by "
+ "square brackets. It can consist of multiple settings in the form "
+ "<literal><replaceable>setting</replaceable>=<replaceable>value</replaceable></literal>. "
+ "Multiple settings are separated by spaces. The following settings are "
+ "supported by APT (note however that unsupported settings will be ignored "
+ "silently):"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:122
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:117
msgid ""
- "to the versions that are not installed and do not belong to the target "
- "release."
+ "<literal>arch=<replaceable>arch1</replaceable>,<replaceable>arch2</replaceable>,…</literal> "
+ "can be used to specify for which architectures information should be "
+ "downloaded. If this option is not set all architectures defined by the "
+ "<literal>APT::Architectures</literal> option will be downloaded."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:126
- msgid "priority 990"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:121
+ msgid ""
+ "<literal>trusted=yes</literal> can be set to indicate that packages from "
+ "this source are always authenticated even if the "
+ "<filename>Release</filename> file is not signed or the signature can't be "
+ "checked. This disables parts of &apt-secure; and should therefore only be "
+ "used in a local and trusted context. <literal>trusted=no</literal> is the "
+ "opposite which handles even correctly authenticated sources as not "
+ "authenticated."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:127
- msgid "to the versions that are not installed and belong to the target release."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:128
+ msgid ""
+ "It is important to list sources in order of preference, with the most "
+ "preferred source listed first. Typically this will result in sorting by "
+ "speed from fastest to slowest (CD-ROM followed by hosts on a local network, "
+ "followed by distant Internet hosts, for example)."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:132
- msgid ""
- "If the target release has not been specified then APT simply assigns "
- "priority 100 to all installed package versions and priority 500 to all "
- "uninstalled package versions, except versions coming from archives which in "
- "their <filename>Release</filename> files are marked as \"NotAutomatic: yes\" "
- "- these versions get the priority 1 or priority 100 if it is additionally "
- "marked as \"ButAutomaticUpgrades: yes\"."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:133
+ msgid "Some examples:"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:139
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><literallayout>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:135
+ #, no-wrap
msgid ""
- "APT then applies the following rules, listed in order of precedence, to "
- "determine which version of a package to install."
+ "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian &stable-codename; main contrib non-free\n"
+ "deb http://security.debian.org/ &stable-codename;/updates main contrib "
+ "non-free\n"
+ " "
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:142
- msgid ""
- "Never downgrade unless the priority of an available version exceeds 1000. "
- "(\"Downgrading\" is installing a less recent version of a package in place "
- "of a more recent version. Note that none of APT's default priorities "
- "exceeds 1000; such high priorities can only be set in the preferences file. "
- "Note also that downgrading a package can be risky.)"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:141
+ msgid "URI specification"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:148
- msgid "Install the highest priority version."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:143
+ msgid "The currently recognized URI types are:"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:149
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:147
msgid ""
- "If two or more versions have the same priority, install the most recent one "
- "(that is, the one with the higher version number)."
+ "The file scheme allows an arbitrary directory in the file system to be "
+ "considered an archive. This is useful for NFS mounts and local mirrors or "
+ "archives."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:152
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:154
msgid ""
- "If two or more versions have the same priority and version number but either "
- "the packages differ in some of their metadata or the "
- "<literal>--reinstall</literal> option is given, install the uninstalled one."
+ "The cdrom scheme allows APT to use a local CD-ROM drive with media "
+ "swapping. Use the &apt-cdrom; program to create cdrom entries in the source "
+ "list."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:158
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:161
msgid ""
- "In a typical situation, the installed version of a package (priority 100) "
- "is not as recent as one of the versions available from the sources listed in "
- "the &sources-list; file (priority 500 or 990). Then the package will be "
- "upgraded when <command>apt-get install "
- "<replaceable>some-package</replaceable></command> or <command>apt-get "
- "upgrade</command> is executed."
+ "The http scheme specifies an HTTP server for the archive. If an environment "
+ "variable <envar>http_proxy</envar> is set with the format "
+ "http://server:port/, the proxy server specified in <envar>http_proxy</envar> "
+ "will be used. Users of authenticated HTTP/1.1 proxies may use a string of "
+ "the format http://user:pass@server:port/. Note that this is an insecure "
+ "method of authentication."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:165
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:172
msgid ""
- "More rarely, the installed version of a package is <emphasis>more</emphasis> "
- "recent than any of the other available versions. The package will not be "
- "downgraded when <command>apt-get install "
- "<replaceable>some-package</replaceable></command> or <command>apt-get "
- "upgrade</command> is executed."
+ "The ftp scheme specifies an FTP server for the archive. APT's FTP behavior "
+ "is highly configurable; for more information see the &apt-conf; manual "
+ "page. Please note that an FTP proxy can be specified by using the "
+ "<envar>ftp_proxy</envar> environment variable. It is possible to specify an "
+ "HTTP proxy (HTTP proxy servers often understand FTP URLs) using this "
+ "environment variable and <emphasis>only</emphasis> this environment "
+ "variable. Proxies using HTTP specified in the configuration file will be "
+ "ignored."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:170
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:184
msgid ""
- "Sometimes the installed version of a package is more recent than the version "
- "belonging to the target release, but not as recent as a version belonging to "
- "some other distribution. Such a package will indeed be upgraded when "
- "<command>apt-get install <replaceable>some-package</replaceable></command> "
- "or <command>apt-get upgrade</command> is executed, because at least "
- "<emphasis>one</emphasis> of the available versions has a higher priority "
- "than the installed version."
+ "The copy scheme is identical to the file scheme except that packages are "
+ "copied into the cache directory instead of used directly at their location. "
+ "This is useful for people using removable media to copy files around with "
+ "APT."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:179
- msgid "The Effect of APT Preferences"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:191
+ msgid ""
+ "The rsh/ssh method invokes RSH/SSH to connect to a remote host and access "
+ "the files as a given user. Prior configuration of rhosts or RSA keys is "
+ "recommended. The standard <command>find</command> and <command>dd</command> "
+ "commands are used to perform the file transfers from the remote host."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:181
- msgid ""
- "The APT preferences file allows the system administrator to control the "
- "assignment of priorities. The file consists of one or more multi-line "
- "records separated by blank lines. Records can have one of two forms, a "
- "specific form and a general form."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:198
+ msgid "adding more recognizable URI types"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:187
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:200
msgid ""
- "The specific form assigns a priority (a \"Pin-Priority\") to one or more "
- "specified packages and specified version or version range. For example, the "
- "following record assigns a high priority to all versions of the "
- "<filename>perl</filename> package whose version number begins with "
- "\"<literal>5.8</literal>\". Multiple packages can be separated by spaces."
+ "APT can be extended with more methods shipped in other optional packages, "
+ "which should follow the naming scheme "
+ "<package>apt-transport-<replaceable>method</replaceable></package>. For "
+ "instance, the APT team also maintains the package "
+ "<package>apt-transport-https</package>, which provides access methods for "
+ "HTTPS URIs with features similar to the http method. Methods for using "
+ "e.g. debtorrent are also available - see &apt-transport-debtorrent;."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:194
- #, no-wrap
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:212
msgid ""
- "Package: perl\n"
- "Pin: version 5.8*\n"
- "Pin-Priority: 1001\n"
+ "Uses the archive stored locally (or NFS mounted) at /home/jason/debian for "
+ "stable/main, stable/contrib, and stable/non-free."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:200
- msgid ""
- "The general form assigns a priority to all of the package versions in a "
- "given distribution (that is, to all the versions of packages that are listed "
- "in a certain <filename>Release</filename> file) or to all of the package "
- "versions coming from a particular Internet site, as identified by the site's "
- "fully qualified domain name."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><literallayout>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:214
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "deb file:/home/jason/debian stable main contrib non-free"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:206
- msgid ""
- "This general-form entry in the APT preferences file applies only to groups "
- "of packages. For example, the following record assigns a high priority to "
- "all package versions available from the local site."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:216
+ msgid "As above, except this uses the unstable (development) distribution."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:211
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><literallayout>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:217
#, no-wrap
- msgid ""
- "Package: *\n"
- "Pin: origin \"\"\n"
- "Pin-Priority: 999\n"
+ msgid "deb file:/home/jason/debian unstable main contrib non-free"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:219
+ msgid "Source line for the above"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:216
- msgid ""
- "A note of caution: the keyword used here is \"<literal>origin</literal>\" "
- "which can be used to match a hostname. The following record will assign a "
- "high priority to all versions available from the server identified by the "
- "hostname \"ftp.de.debian.org\""
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><literallayout>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:220
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "deb-src file:/home/jason/debian unstable main contrib non-free"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:220
- #, no-wrap
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:222
msgid ""
- "Package: *\n"
- "Pin: origin \"ftp.de.debian.org\"\n"
- "Pin-Priority: 999\n"
+ "The first line gets package information for the architectures in "
+ "<literal>APT::Architectures</literal> while the second always retrieves "
+ "<literal>amd64</literal> and <literal>armel</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:224
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><literallayout>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:224
+ #, no-wrap
msgid ""
- "This should <emphasis>not</emphasis> be confused with the Origin of a "
- "distribution as specified in a <filename>Release</filename> file. What "
- "follows the \"Origin:\" tag in a <filename>Release</filename> file is not an "
- "Internet address but an author or vendor name, such as \"Debian\" or "
- "\"Ximian\"."
+ "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian &stable-codename; main\n"
+ "deb [ arch=amd64,armel ] http://ftp.debian.org/debian &stable-codename; main"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:229
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:227
msgid ""
- "The following record assigns a low priority to all package versions "
- "belonging to any distribution whose Archive name is "
- "\"<literal>unstable</literal>\"."
+ "Uses HTTP to access the archive at archive.debian.org, and uses only the "
+ "hamm/main area."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:233
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><literallayout>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:229
#, no-wrap
- msgid ""
- "Package: *\n"
- "Pin: release a=unstable\n"
- "Pin-Priority: 50\n"
+ msgid "deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive hamm main"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:238
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:231
msgid ""
- "The following record assigns a high priority to all package versions "
- "belonging to any distribution whose Codename is "
- "\"<literal>&testing-codename;</literal>\"."
+ "Uses FTP to access the archive at ftp.debian.org, under the debian "
+ "directory, and uses only the &stable-codename;/contrib area."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:242
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><literallayout>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:233
#, no-wrap
- msgid ""
- "Package: *\n"
- "Pin: release n=&testing-codename;\n"
- "Pin-Priority: 900\n"
+ msgid "deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian &stable-codename; contrib"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:247
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:235
msgid ""
- "The following record assigns a high priority to all package versions "
- "belonging to any release whose Archive name is \"<literal>stable</literal>\" "
- "and whose release Version number is \"<literal>3.0</literal>\"."
+ "Uses FTP to access the archive at ftp.debian.org, under the debian "
+ "directory, and uses only the unstable/contrib area. If this line appears as "
+ "well as the one in the previous example in <filename>sources.list</filename> "
+ "a single FTP session will be used for both resource lines."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:252
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><literallayout>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:239
#, no-wrap
- msgid ""
- "Package: *\n"
- "Pin: release a=stable, v=3.0\n"
- "Pin-Priority: 500\n"
+ msgid "deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable contrib"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:262
- msgid "Regular expressions and glob() syntax"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><literallayout>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:248
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "deb http://ftp.tlh.debian.org/universe unstable/binary-$(ARCH)/"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:264
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:241
msgid ""
- "APT also supports pinning by glob() expressions and regular expressions "
- "surrounded by /. For example, the following example assigns the priority 500 "
- "to all packages from experimental where the name starts with gnome (as a "
- "glob()-like expression) or contains the word kde (as a POSIX extended "
- "regular expression surrounded by slashes)."
+ "Uses HTTP to access the archive at ftp.tlh.debian.org, under the universe "
+ "directory, and uses only files found under "
+ "<filename>unstable/binary-i386</filename> on i386 machines, "
+ "<filename>unstable/binary-amd64</filename> on amd64, and so forth for other "
+ "supported architectures. [Note this example only illustrates how to use the "
+ "substitution variable; official debian archives are not structured like "
+ "this] <placeholder type=\"literallayout\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:273
- #, no-wrap
- msgid ""
- "Package: gnome* /kde/\n"
- "Pin: release n=experimental\n"
- "Pin-Priority: 500\n"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: sources.list.5.xml:253
+ msgid "&apt-cache; &apt-conf;"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:279
- msgid ""
- "The rule for those expressions is that they can occur anywhere where a "
- "string can occur. Thus, the following pin assigns the priority 990 to all "
- "packages from a release starting with karmic."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refmeta><manvolnum>
+ #: apt-extracttemplates.1.xml:26 apt-sortpkgs.1.xml:26 apt-ftparchive.1.xml:26
+ msgid "1"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:285
- #, no-wrap
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refnamediv><refpurpose>
+ #: apt-extracttemplates.1.xml:33
msgid ""
- "Package: *\n"
- "Pin: release n=karmic*\n"
- "Pin-Priority: 990\n"
+ "Utility to extract <command>debconf</command> config and templates from "
+ "Debian packages"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:291
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-extracttemplates.1.xml:39
msgid ""
- "If a regular expression occurs in a <literal>Package</literal> field, the "
- "behavior is the same as if this regular expression were replaced with a list "
- "of all package names it matches. It is undecided whether this will change in "
- "the future, thus you should always list wild-card pins first, so later "
- "specific pins override it. The pattern \"<literal>*</literal>\" in a "
- "Package field is not considered a glob() expression in itself."
+ "<command>apt-extracttemplates</command> will take one or more Debian package "
+ "files as input and write out (to a temporary directory) all associated "
+ "config scripts and template files. For each passed in package that contains "
+ "config scripts and templates, one line of output will be generated in the "
+ "format:"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:307
- msgid "How APT Interprets Priorities"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-extracttemplates.1.xml:44
+ msgid "package version template-file config-script"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:310
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-extracttemplates.1.xml:45
msgid ""
- "Priorities (P) assigned in the APT preferences file must be positive or "
- "negative integers. They are interpreted as follows (roughly speaking):"
+ "template-file and config-script are written to the temporary directory "
+ "specified by the <option>-t</option> or <option>--tempdir</option> "
+ "(<literal>APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir</literal>) directory, with "
+ "filenames of the form <filename>package.template.XXXX</filename> and "
+ "<filename>package.config.XXXX</filename>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:315
- msgid "P > 1000"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-extracttemplates.1.xml:58
+ msgid ""
+ "Temporary directory in which to write extracted <command>debconf</command> "
+ "template files and config scripts. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir</literal>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:316
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-extracttemplates.1.xml:75
msgid ""
- "causes a version to be installed even if this constitutes a downgrade of the "
- "package"
+ "<command>apt-extracttemplates</command> returns zero on normal operation, "
+ "decimal 100 on error."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:320
- msgid "990 < P <=1000"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refnamediv><refpurpose>
+ #: apt-sortpkgs.1.xml:33
+ msgid "Utility to sort package index files"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:321
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-sortpkgs.1.xml:39
msgid ""
- "causes a version to be installed even if it does not come from the target "
- "release, unless the installed version is more recent"
+ "<command>apt-sortpkgs</command> will take an index file (source index or "
+ "package index) and sort the records so that they are ordered by the package "
+ "name. It will also sort the internal fields of each record according to the "
+ "internal sorting rules."
msgstr ""
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- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:326
- msgid "500 < P <=990"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-sortpkgs.1.xml:45
+ msgid "All output is sent to standard output; the input must be a seekable file."
msgstr ""
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- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:327
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-sortpkgs.1.xml:54
msgid ""
- "causes a version to be installed unless there is a version available "
- "belonging to the target release or the installed version is more recent"
- msgstr ""
-
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:332
- msgid "100 < P <=500"
+ "Use source index field ordering. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::SortPkgs::Source</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:333
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-sortpkgs.1.xml:68
msgid ""
- "causes a version to be installed unless there is a version available "
- "belonging to some other distribution or the installed version is more recent"
+ "<command>apt-sortpkgs</command> returns zero on normal operation, decimal "
+ "100 on error."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:338
- msgid "0 < P <=100"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refnamediv><refpurpose>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:33
+ msgid "Utility to generate index files"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:339
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:39
msgid ""
- "causes a version to be installed only if there is no installed version of "
- "the package"
- msgstr ""
-
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:343
- msgid "P < 0"
+ "<command>apt-ftparchive</command> is the command line tool that generates "
+ "the index files that APT uses to access a distribution source. The index "
+ "files should be generated on the origin site based on the content of that "
+ "site."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:344
- msgid "prevents the version from being installed"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:43
+ msgid ""
+ "<command>apt-ftparchive</command> is a superset of the &dpkg-scanpackages; "
+ "program, incorporating its entire functionality via the "
+ "<literal>packages</literal> command. It also contains a contents file "
+ "generator, <literal>contents</literal>, and an elaborate means to 'script' "
+ "the generation process for a complete archive."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:349
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:49
msgid ""
- "If any specific-form records match an available package version then the "
- "first such record determines the priority of the package version. Failing "
- "that, if any general-form records match an available package version then "
- "the first such record determines the priority of the package version."
+ "Internally <command>apt-ftparchive</command> can make use of binary "
+ "databases to cache the contents of a .deb file and it does not rely on any "
+ "external programs aside from &gzip;. When doing a full generate it "
+ "automatically performs file-change checks and builds the desired compressed "
+ "output files."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:355
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:60
msgid ""
- "For example, suppose the APT preferences file contains the three records "
- "presented earlier:"
+ "The packages command generates a package file from a directory tree. It "
+ "takes the given directory and recursively searches it for .deb files, "
+ "emitting a package record to stdout for each. This command is approximately "
+ "equivalent to &dpkg-scanpackages;."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:359
- #, no-wrap
- msgid ""
- "Package: perl\n"
- "Pin: version 5.8*\n"
- "Pin-Priority: 1001\n"
- "\n"
- "Package: *\n"
- "Pin: origin \"\"\n"
- "Pin-Priority: 999\n"
- "\n"
- "Package: *\n"
- "Pin: release unstable\n"
- "Pin-Priority: 50\n"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:65 apt-ftparchive.1.xml:89
+ msgid "The option <option>--db</option> can be used to specify a binary caching DB."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:372
- msgid "Then:"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:70
+ msgid ""
+ "The <literal>sources</literal> command generates a source index file from a "
+ "directory tree. It takes the given directory and recursively searches it "
+ "for .dsc files, emitting a source record to stdout for each. This command is "
+ "approximately equivalent to &dpkg-scansources;."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:374
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:75
msgid ""
- "The most recent available version of the <literal>perl</literal> package "
- "will be installed, so long as that version's version number begins with "
- "\"<literal>5.8</literal>\". If <emphasis>any</emphasis> 5.8* version of "
- "<literal>perl</literal> is available and the installed version is 5.9*, then "
- "<literal>perl</literal> will be downgraded."
+ "If an override file is specified then a source override file will be looked "
+ "for with an extension of .src. The --source-override option can be used to "
+ "change the source override file that will be used."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:379
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:82
msgid ""
- "A version of any package other than <literal>perl</literal> that is "
- "available from the local system has priority over other versions, even "
- "versions belonging to the target release."
+ "The <literal>contents</literal> command generates a contents file from a "
+ "directory tree. It takes the given directory and recursively searches it for "
+ ".deb files, and reads the file list from each file. It then sorts and writes "
+ "to stdout the list of files matched to packages. Directories are not written "
+ "to the output. If multiple packages own the same file then each package is "
+ "separated by a comma in the output."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><itemizedlist><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:383
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:94
msgid ""
- "A version of a package whose origin is not the local system but some other "
- "site listed in &sources-list; and which belongs to an "
- "<literal>unstable</literal> distribution is only installed if it is selected "
- "for installation and no version of the package is already installed."
+ "The <literal>release</literal> command generates a Release file from a "
+ "directory tree. It recursively searches the given directory for uncompressed "
+ "<filename>Packages</filename> and <filename>Sources</filename> files and "
+ "ones compressed with <command>gzip</command>, <command>bzip2</command> or "
+ "<command>lzma</command> as well as <filename>Release</filename> and "
+ "<filename>md5sum.txt</filename> files by default "
+ "(<literal>APT::FTPArchive::Release::Default-Patterns</literal>). Additional "
+ "filename patterns can be added by listing them in "
+ "<literal>APT::FTPArchive::Release::Patterns</literal>. It then writes to "
+ "stdout a <filename>Release</filename> file containing an MD5, SHA1 and "
+ "SHA256 digest for each file."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:393
- msgid "Determination of Package Version and Distribution Properties"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:104
+ msgid ""
+ "Values for the additional metadata fields in the Release file are taken from "
+ "the corresponding variables under "
+ "<literal>APT::FTPArchive::Release</literal>, "
+ "e.g. <literal>APT::FTPArchive::Release::Origin</literal>. The supported "
+ "fields are: <literal>Origin</literal>, <literal>Label</literal>, "
+ "<literal>Suite</literal>, <literal>Version</literal>, "
+ "<literal>Codename</literal>, <literal>Date</literal>, "
+ "<literal>Valid-Until</literal>, <literal>Architectures</literal>, "
+ "<literal>Components</literal>, <literal>Description</literal>."
msgstr ""
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refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:395
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:117
msgid ""
- "The locations listed in the &sources-list; file should provide "
- "<filename>Packages</filename> and <filename>Release</filename> files to "
- "describe the packages available at that location."
+ "The <literal>generate</literal> command is designed to be runnable from a "
+ "cron script and builds indexes according to the given config file. The "
+ "config language provides a flexible means of specifying which index files "
+ "are built from which directories, as well as providing a simple means of "
+ "maintaining the required settings."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:399
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:126
msgid ""
- "The <filename>Packages</filename> file is normally found in the directory "
- "<filename>.../dists/<replaceable>dist-name</replaceable>/<replaceable>component</replaceable>/<replaceable>arch</replaceable></filename>: "
- "for example, "
- "<filename>.../dists/stable/main/binary-i386/Packages</filename>. It "
- "consists of a series of multi-line records, one for each package available "
- "in that directory. Only two lines in each record are relevant for setting "
- "APT priorities:"
+ "The <literal>clean</literal> command tidies the databases used by the given "
+ "configuration file by removing any records that are no longer necessary."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:407
- msgid "the <literal>Package:</literal> line"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:132
+ msgid "The Generate Configuration"
msgstr ""
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- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:408
- msgid "gives the package name"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:134
+ msgid ""
+ "The <literal>generate</literal> command uses a configuration file to "
+ "describe the archives that are going to be generated. It follows the typical "
+ "ISC configuration format as seen in ISC tools like bind 8 and dhcpd. "
+ "&apt-conf; contains a description of the syntax. Note that the generate "
+ "configuration is parsed in sectional manner, but &apt-conf; is parsed in a "
+ "tree manner. This only effects how the scope tag is handled."
msgstr ""
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- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:411 apt_preferences.5.xml:461
- msgid "the <literal>Version:</literal> line"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:142
+ msgid "The generate configuration has four separate sections, each described below."
msgstr ""
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- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:412
- msgid "gives the version number for the named package"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:144
+ msgid "<literal>Dir</literal> Section"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:417
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:146
msgid ""
- "The <filename>Release</filename> file is normally found in the directory "
- "<filename>.../dists/<replaceable>dist-name</replaceable></filename>: for "
- "example, <filename>.../dists/stable/Release</filename>, or "
- "<filename>.../dists/&stable-codename;/Release</filename>. It consists of a "
- "single multi-line record which applies to <emphasis>all</emphasis> of the "
- "packages in the directory tree below its parent. Unlike the "
- "<filename>Packages</filename> file, nearly all of the lines in a "
- "<filename>Release</filename> file are relevant for setting APT priorities:"
- msgstr ""
-
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:428
- msgid "the <literal>Archive:</literal> or <literal>Suite:</literal> line"
+ "The <literal>Dir</literal> section defines the standard directories needed "
+ "to locate the files required during the generation process. These "
+ "directories are prepended certain relative paths defined in later sections "
+ "to produce a complete an absolute path."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:429
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:153
msgid ""
- "names the archive to which all the packages in the directory tree belong. "
- "For example, the line \"Archive: stable\" or \"Suite: stable\" specifies "
- "that all of the packages in the directory tree below the parent of the "
- "<filename>Release</filename> file are in a <literal>stable</literal> "
- "archive. Specifying this value in the APT preferences file would require "
- "the line:"
+ "Specifies the root of the FTP archive, in a standard Debian configuration "
+ "this is the directory that contains the <filename>ls-LR</filename> and dist "
+ "nodes."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:439
- #, no-wrap
- msgid "Pin: release a=stable\n"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:160
+ msgid "Specifies the location of the override files."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:445
- msgid "the <literal>Codename:</literal> line"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:165
+ msgid "Specifies the location of the cache files."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:446
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:170
msgid ""
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- "For example, the line \"Codename: &testing-codename;\" specifies that all of "
- "the packages in the directory tree below the parent of the "
- "<filename>Release</filename> file belong to a version named "
- "<literal>&testing-codename;</literal>. Specifying this value in the APT "
- "preferences file would require the line:"
+ "Specifies the location of the file list files, if the "
+ "<literal>FileList</literal> setting is used below."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:455
- #, no-wrap
- msgid "Pin: release n=&testing-codename;\n"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:176
+ msgid "<literal>Default</literal> Section"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:462
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:178
msgid ""
- "names the release version. For example, the packages in the tree might "
- "belong to Debian release version 3.0. Note that there is normally no "
- "version number for the <literal>testing</literal> and "
- "<literal>unstable</literal> distributions because they have not been "
- "released yet. Specifying this in the APT preferences file would require one "
- "of the following lines."
+ "The <literal>Default</literal> section specifies default values, and "
+ "settings that control the operation of the generator. Other sections may "
+ "override these defaults with a per-section setting."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:471
- #, no-wrap
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:184
msgid ""
- "Pin: release v=3.0\n"
- "Pin: release a=stable, v=3.0\n"
- "Pin: release 3.0\n"
- msgstr ""
-
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:480
- msgid "the <literal>Component:</literal> line"
+ "Sets the default compression schemes to use for the package index files. It "
+ "is a string that contains a space separated list of at least one of: '.' (no "
+ "compression), 'gzip' and 'bzip2'. The default for all compression schemes is "
+ "'. gzip'."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:481
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:192
msgid ""
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- "tree of the <filename>Release</filename> file. For example, the line "
- "\"Component: main\" specifies that all the packages in the directory tree "
- "are from the <literal>main</literal> component, which entails that they are "
- "licensed under terms listed in the Debian Free Software Guidelines. "
- "Specifying this component in the APT preferences file would require the "
- "line:"
- msgstr ""
-
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:490
- #, no-wrap
- msgid "Pin: release c=main\n"
+ "Sets the default list of file extensions that are package files. This "
+ "defaults to '.deb'."
msgstr ""
-
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:496
- msgid "the <literal>Origin:</literal> line"
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:198
+ msgid ""
+ "This is similar to <literal>Packages::Compress</literal> except that it "
+ "controls the compression for the Sources files."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:497
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:204
msgid ""
- "names the originator of the packages in the directory tree of the "
- "<filename>Release</filename> file. Most commonly, this is "
- "<literal>Debian</literal>. Specifying this origin in the APT preferences "
- "file would require the line:"
+ "Sets the default list of file extensions that are source files. This "
+ "defaults to '.dsc'."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:503
- #, no-wrap
- msgid "Pin: release o=Debian\n"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:210
+ msgid ""
+ "This is similar to <literal>Packages::Compress</literal> except that it "
+ "controls the compression for the Contents files."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:509
- msgid "the <literal>Label:</literal> line"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:216
+ msgid ""
+ "This is similar to <literal>Packages::Compress</literal> except that it "
+ "controls the compression for the Translation-en master file."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><simpara>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:510
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:222
msgid ""
- "names the label of the packages in the directory tree of the "
- "<filename>Release</filename> file. Most commonly, this is "
- "<literal>Debian</literal>. Specifying this label in the APT preferences "
- "file would require the line:"
+ "Specifies the number of kilobytes to delink (and replace with hard links) "
+ "per run. This is used in conjunction with the per-section "
+ "<literal>External-Links</literal> setting."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:516
- #, no-wrap
- msgid "Pin: release l=Debian\n"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:229
+ msgid ""
+ "Specifies the mode of all created index files. It defaults to 0644. All "
+ "index files are set to this mode with no regard to the umask."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:523
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:236 apt-ftparchive.1.xml:382
msgid ""
- "All of the <filename>Packages</filename> and <filename>Release</filename> "
- "files retrieved from locations listed in the &sources-list; file are stored "
- "in the directory <filename>/var/lib/apt/lists</filename>, or in the file "
- "named by the variable <literal>Dir::State::Lists</literal> in the "
- "<filename>apt.conf</filename> file. For example, the file "
- "<filename>debian.lcs.mit.edu_debian_dists_unstable_contrib_binary-i386_Release</filename> "
- "contains the <filename>Release</filename> file retrieved from the site "
- "<literal>debian.lcs.mit.edu</literal> for <literal>binary-i386</literal> "
- "architecture files from the <literal>contrib</literal> component of the "
- "<literal>unstable</literal> distribution."
+ "Specifies whether long descriptions should be included in the "
+ "<filename>Packages</filename> file or split out into a master "
+ "<filename>Translation-en</filename> file."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:536
- msgid "Optional Lines in an APT Preferences Record"
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:242
+ msgid "<literal>TreeDefault</literal> Section"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:538
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:244
msgid ""
- "Each record in the APT preferences file can optionally begin with one or "
- "more lines beginning with the word <literal>Explanation:</literal>. This "
- "provides a place for comments."
+ "Sets defaults specific to <literal>Tree</literal> sections. All of these "
+ "variables are substitution variables and have the strings $(DIST), "
+ "$(SECTION) and $(ARCH) replaced with their respective values."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:547
- msgid "Tracking Stable"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:251
+ msgid ""
+ "Sets the number of kilobytes of contents files that are generated each "
+ "day. The contents files are round-robined so that over several days they "
+ "will all be rebuilt."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:555
- #, no-wrap
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:258
msgid ""
- "Explanation: Uninstall or do not install any Debian-originated\n"
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- "Pin: release a=stable\n"
- "Pin-Priority: 900\n"
- "\n"
- "Package: *\n"
- "Pin: release o=Debian\n"
- "Pin-Priority: -10\n"
+ "Controls the number of days a contents file is allowed to be checked without "
+ "changing. If this limit is passed the mtime of the contents file is "
+ "updated. This case can occur if the package file is changed in such a way "
+ "that does not result in a new contents file [override edit for instance]. A "
+ "hold off is allowed in hopes that new .debs will be installed, requiring a "
+ "new file anyhow. The default is 10, the units are in days."
msgstr ""
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- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:549
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:269
msgid ""
- "The following APT preferences file will cause APT to assign a priority "
- "higher than the default (500) to all package versions belonging to a "
- "<literal>stable</literal> distribution and a prohibitively low priority to "
- "package versions belonging to other <literal>Debian</literal> "
- "distributions. <placeholder type=\"programlisting\" id=\"0\"/>"
+ "Sets the top of the .deb directory tree. Defaults to "
+ "<filename>$(DIST)/$(SECTION)/binary-$(ARCH)/</filename>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:572 apt_preferences.5.xml:618 apt_preferences.5.xml:676
- #, no-wrap
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:275
msgid ""
- "apt-get install <replaceable>package-name</replaceable>\n"
- "apt-get upgrade\n"
- "apt-get dist-upgrade\n"
+ "Sets the top of the source package directory tree. Defaults to "
+ "<filename>$(DIST)/$(SECTION)/source/</filename>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:567
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:281
msgid ""
- "With a suitable &sources-list; file and the above preferences file, any of "
- "the following commands will cause APT to upgrade to the latest "
- "<literal>stable</literal> version(s). <placeholder type=\"programlisting\" "
- "id=\"0\"/>"
+ "Sets the output Packages file. Defaults to "
+ "<filename>$(DIST)/$(SECTION)/binary-$(ARCH)/Packages</filename>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:584
- #, no-wrap
- msgid "apt-get install <replaceable>package</replaceable>/testing\n"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:287
+ msgid ""
+ "Sets the output Sources file. Defaults to "
+ "<filename>$(DIST)/$(SECTION)/source/Sources</filename>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:578
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:293
msgid ""
- "The following command will cause APT to upgrade the specified package to the "
- "latest version from the <literal>testing</literal> distribution; the package "
- "will not be upgraded again unless this command is given again. <placeholder "
- "type=\"programlisting\" id=\"0\"/>"
+ "Sets the output Translation-en master file with the long descriptions if "
+ "they should be not included in the Packages file. Defaults to "
+ "<filename>$(DIST)/$(SECTION)/i18n/Translation-en</filename>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:590
- msgid "Tracking Testing or Unstable"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:300
+ msgid ""
+ "Sets the path prefix that causes a symlink to be considered an internal link "
+ "instead of an external link. Defaults to "
+ "<filename>$(DIST)/$(SECTION)/</filename>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:599
- #, no-wrap
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:307
msgid ""
- "Package: *\n"
- "Pin: release a=testing\n"
- "Pin-Priority: 900\n"
- "\n"
- "Package: *\n"
- "Pin: release a=unstable\n"
- "Pin-Priority: 800\n"
- "\n"
- "Package: *\n"
- "Pin: release o=Debian\n"
- "Pin-Priority: -10\n"
+ "Sets the output Contents file. Defaults to "
+ "<filename>$(DIST)/$(SECTION)/Contents-$(ARCH)</filename>. If this setting "
+ "causes multiple Packages files to map onto a single Contents file (as is the "
+ "default) then <command>apt-ftparchive</command> will integrate those "
+ "package files together automatically."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:592
- msgid ""
- "The following APT preferences file will cause APT to assign a high priority "
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- "lower priority to package versions from the <literal>unstable</literal> "
- "distribution, and a prohibitively low priority to package versions from "
- "other <literal>Debian</literal> distributions. <placeholder "
- "type=\"programlisting\" id=\"0\"/>"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:316
+ msgid "Sets header file to prepend to the contents output."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:613
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:321
msgid ""
- "With a suitable &sources-list; file and the above preferences file, any of "
- "the following commands will cause APT to upgrade to the latest "
- "<literal>testing</literal> version(s). <placeholder type=\"programlisting\" "
- "id=\"0\"/>"
+ "Sets the binary cache database to use for this section. Multiple sections "
+ "can share the same database."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:633
- #, no-wrap
- msgid "apt-get install <replaceable>package</replaceable>/unstable\n"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:327
+ msgid ""
+ "Specifies that instead of walking the directory tree, "
+ "<command>apt-ftparchive</command> should read the list of files from the "
+ "given file. Relative files names are prefixed with the archive directory."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:624
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:334
msgid ""
- "The following command will cause APT to upgrade the specified package to the "
- "latest version from the <literal>unstable</literal> distribution. "
- "Thereafter, <command>apt-get upgrade</command> will upgrade the package to "
- "the most recent <literal>testing</literal> version if that is more recent "
- "than the installed version, otherwise, to the most recent "
- "<literal>unstable</literal> version if that is more recent than the "
- "installed version. <placeholder type=\"programlisting\" id=\"0\"/>"
+ "Specifies that instead of walking the directory tree, "
+ "<command>apt-ftparchive</command> should read the list of files from the "
+ "given file. Relative files names are prefixed with the archive directory. "
+ "This is used when processing source indexes."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:640
- msgid "Tracking the evolution of a codename release"
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:342
+ msgid "<literal>Tree</literal> Section"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:654
- #, no-wrap
- msgid ""
- "Explanation: Uninstall or do not install any Debian-originated package "
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- "Package: *\n"
- "Pin: release n=&testing-codename;\n"
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- "Pin-Priority: 800\n"
- "\n"
- "Package: *\n"
- "Pin: release o=Debian\n"
- "Pin-Priority: -10\n"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:344
+ msgid ""
+ "The <literal>Tree</literal> section defines a standard Debian file tree "
+ "which consists of a base directory, then multiple sections in that base "
+ "directory and finally multiple Architectures in each section. The exact "
+ "pathing used is defined by the <literal>Directory</literal> substitution "
+ "variable."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:642
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:349
msgid ""
- "The following APT preferences file will cause APT to assign a priority "
- "higher than the default (500) to all package versions belonging to a "
- "specified codename of a distribution and a prohibitively low priority to "
- "package versions belonging to other <literal>Debian</literal> distributions, "
- "codenames and archives. Note that with this APT preference APT will follow "
- "the migration of a release from the archive <literal>testing</literal> to "
- "<literal>stable</literal> and later <literal>oldstable</literal>. If you "
- "want to follow for example the progress in <literal>testing</literal> "
- "notwithstanding the codename changes you should use the example "
- "configurations above. <placeholder type=\"programlisting\" id=\"0\"/>"
+ "The <literal>Tree</literal> section takes a scope tag which sets the "
+ "<literal>$(DIST)</literal> variable and defines the root of the tree (the "
+ "path is prefixed by <literal>ArchiveDir</literal>). Typically this is a "
+ "setting such as <filename>dists/&stable-codename;</filename>."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:671
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:354
msgid ""
- "With a suitable &sources-list; file and the above preferences file, any of "
- "the following commands will cause APT to upgrade to the latest version(s) in "
- "the release codenamed with <literal>&testing-codename;</literal>. "
- "<placeholder type=\"programlisting\" id=\"0\"/>"
+ "All of the settings defined in the <literal>TreeDefault</literal> section "
+ "can be used in a <literal>Tree</literal> section as well as three new "
+ "variables."
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para><programlisting>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:691
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:360
#, no-wrap
- msgid "apt-get install <replaceable>package</replaceable>/sid\n"
+ msgid ""
+ "for i in Sections do \n"
+ " for j in Architectures do\n"
+ " Generate for DIST=scope SECTION=i ARCH=j\n"
+ " "
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:682
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:357
msgid ""
- "The following command will cause APT to upgrade the specified package to the "
- "latest version from the <literal>sid</literal> distribution. Thereafter, "
- "<command>apt-get upgrade</command> will upgrade the package to the most "
- "recent <literal>&testing-codename;</literal> version if that is more recent "
- "than the installed version, otherwise, to the most recent "
- "<literal>sid</literal> version if that is more recent than the installed "
- "version. <placeholder type=\"programlisting\" id=\"0\"/>"
+ "When processing a <literal>Tree</literal> section "
+ "<command>apt-ftparchive</command> performs an operation similar to: "
+ "<placeholder type=\"programlisting\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: apt_preferences.5.xml:706
- msgid "&apt-get; &apt-cache; &apt-conf; &sources-list;"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:368
+ msgid ""
+ "This is a space separated list of sections which appear under the "
+ "distribution; typically this is something like <literal>main contrib "
+ "non-free</literal>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refnamediv><refpurpose>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:33
- msgid "Package resource list for APT"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:375
+ msgid ""
+ "This is a space separated list of all the architectures that appear under "
+ "search section. The special architecture 'source' is used to indicate that "
+ "this tree has a source archive."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:37
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:388
msgid ""
- "The package resource list is used to locate archives of the package "
- "distribution system in use on the system. At this time, this manual page "
- "documents only the packaging system used by the Debian system. This control "
- "file is <filename>/etc/apt/sources.list</filename>."
+ "Sets the binary override file. The override file contains section, priority "
+ "and maintainer address information."
msgstr ""
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- #: sources.list.5.xml:42
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:394
msgid ""
- "The source list is designed to support any number of active sources and a "
- "variety of source media. The file lists one source per line, with the most "
- "preferred source listed first. The format of each line is: <literal>type uri "
- "args</literal> The first item, <literal>type</literal> determines the format "
- "for <literal>args</literal>. <literal>uri</literal> is a Universal Resource "
- "Identifier (URI), which is a superset of the more specific and well-known "
- "Universal Resource Locator, or URL. The rest of the line can be marked as a "
- "comment by using a #."
+ "Sets the source override file. The override file contains section "
+ "information."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:53
- msgid "sources.list.d"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:400 apt-ftparchive.1.xml:446
+ msgid "Sets the binary extra override file."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:54
- msgid ""
- "The <filename>/etc/apt/sources.list.d</filename> directory provides a way to "
- "add sources.list entries in separate files. The format is the same as for "
- "the regular <filename>sources.list</filename> file. File names need to end "
- "with <filename>.list</filename> and may only contain letters (a-z and A-Z), "
- "digits (0-9), underscore (_), hyphen (-) and period (.) characters. "
- "Otherwise APT will print a notice that it has ignored a file if the file "
- "doesn't match a pattern in the <literal>Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently</literal> "
- "configuration list - in this case it will be silently ignored."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:405 apt-ftparchive.1.xml:451
+ msgid "Sets the source extra override file."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:65
- msgid "The deb and deb-src types"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><title>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:410
+ msgid "<literal>BinDirectory</literal> Section"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:66
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:412
msgid ""
- "The <literal>deb</literal> type describes a typical two-level Debian "
- "archive, <filename>distribution/component</filename>. Typically, "
- "<literal>distribution</literal> is generally an archivename like "
- "<literal>stable</literal> or <literal>testing</literal> or a codename like "
- "<literal>&stable-codename;</literal> or "
- "<literal>&testing-codename;</literal> while component is one of "
- "<literal>main</literal> <literal>contrib</literal> or "
- "<literal>non-free</literal>. The <literal>deb-src</literal> type describes a "
- "debian distribution's source code in the same form as the "
- "<literal>deb</literal> type. A <literal>deb-src</literal> line is required "
- "to fetch source indexes."
+ "The <literal>bindirectory</literal> section defines a binary directory tree "
+ "with no special structure. The scope tag specifies the location of the "
+ "binary directory and the settings are similar to the <literal>Tree</literal> "
+ "section with no substitution variables or "
+ "<literal>Section</literal><literal>Architecture</literal> settings."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:78
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:420
+ msgid "Sets the Packages file output."
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:425
msgid ""
- "The format for a <filename>sources.list</filename> entry using the "
- "<literal>deb</literal> and <literal>deb-src</literal> types is:"
+ "Sets the Sources file output. At least one of <literal>Packages</literal> or "
+ "<literal>Sources</literal> is required."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><literallayout>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:81
- #, no-wrap
- msgid "deb [ options ] uri distribution [component1] [component2] [...]"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:431
+ msgid "Sets the Contents file output (optional)."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:83
- msgid ""
- "The URI for the <literal>deb</literal> type must specify the base of the "
- "Debian distribution, from which APT will find the information it needs. "
- "<literal>distribution</literal> can specify an exact path, in which case the "
- "components must be omitted and <literal>distribution</literal> must end with "
- "a slash (/). This is useful for when the case only a particular sub-section "
- "of the archive denoted by the URI is of interest. If "
- "<literal>distribution</literal> does not specify an exact path, at least one "
- "<literal>component</literal> must be present."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:436
+ msgid "Sets the binary override file."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:92
- msgid ""
- "<literal>distribution</literal> may also contain a variable, "
- "<literal>$(ARCH)</literal> which expands to the Debian architecture (i386, "
- "m68k, powerpc, ...) used on the system. This permits "
- "architecture-independent <filename>sources.list</filename> files to be "
- "used. In general this is only of interest when specifying an exact path, "
- "<literal>APT</literal> will automatically generate a URI with the current "
- "architecture otherwise."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:441
+ msgid "Sets the source override file."
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:456
+ msgid "Sets the cache DB."
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:461
+ msgid "Appends a path to all the output paths."
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><refsect2><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:466
+ msgid "Specifies the file list file."
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:473
+ msgid "The Binary Override File"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:100
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:474
msgid ""
- "Since only one distribution can be specified per line it may be necessary to "
- "have multiple lines for the same URI, if a subset of all available "
- "distributions or components at that location is desired. APT will sort the "
- "URI list after it has generated a complete set internally, and will collapse "
- "multiple references to the same Internet host, for instance, into a single "
- "connection, so that it does not inefficiently establish an FTP connection, "
- "close it, do something else, and then re-establish a connection to that same "
- "host. This feature is useful for accessing busy FTP sites with limits on the "
- "number of simultaneous anonymous users. APT also parallelizes connections to "
- "different hosts to more effectively deal with sites with low bandwidth."
+ "The binary override file is fully compatible with &dpkg-scanpackages;. It "
+ "contains four fields separated by spaces. The first field is the package "
+ "name, the second is the priority to force that package to, the third is the "
+ "section to force that package to and the final field is the maintainer "
+ "permutation field."
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><literallayout>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:480
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "old [// oldn]* => new"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><literallayout>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:482
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "new"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:112
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:479
msgid ""
- "<literal>options</literal> is always optional and needs to be surounded by "
- "square brackets. It can consist of multiple settings in the form "
- "<literal><replaceable>setting</replaceable>=<replaceable>value</replaceable></literal>. "
- "Multiple settings are separated by spaces. The following settings are "
- "supported by APT, note though that unsupported settings will be ignored "
- "silently:"
+ "The general form of the maintainer field is: <placeholder "
+ "type=\"literallayout\" id=\"0\"/> or simply, <placeholder "
+ "type=\"literallayout\" id=\"1\"/> The first form allows a double-slash "
+ "separated list of old email addresses to be specified. If any of those are "
+ "found then new is substituted for the maintainer field. The second form "
+ "unconditionally substitutes the maintainer field."
msgstr ""
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- #: sources.list.5.xml:117
- msgid ""
- "<literal>arch=<replaceable>arch1</replaceable>,<replaceable>arch2</replaceable>,…</literal> "
- "can be used to specify for which architectures packages information should "
- "be downloaded. If this option is not set all architectures defined by the "
- "<literal>APT::Architectures</literal> option will be downloaded."
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:490
+ msgid "The Source Override File"
msgstr ""
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- #: sources.list.5.xml:121
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:492
msgid ""
- "<literal>trusted=yes</literal> can be set to indicate that packages from "
- "this source are always authenticated even if the "
- "<filename>Release</filename> file is not signed or the signature can't be "
- "checked. This disables parts of &apt-secure; and should therefore only be "
- "used in a local and trusted context. <literal>trusted=no</literal> is the "
- "opposite which handles even correctly authenticated sources as not "
- "authenticated."
+ "The source override file is fully compatible with &dpkg-scansources;. It "
+ "contains two fields separated by spaces. The first field is the source "
+ "package name, the second is the section to assign it."
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:497
+ msgid "The Extra Override File"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:128
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:499
msgid ""
- "It is important to list sources in order of preference, with the most "
- "preferred source listed first. Typically this will result in sorting by "
- "speed from fastest to slowest (CD-ROM followed by hosts on a local network, "
- "followed by distant Internet hosts, for example)."
+ "The extra override file allows any arbitrary tag to be added or replaced in "
+ "the output. It has three columns, the first is the package, the second is "
+ "the tag and the remainder of the line is the new value."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:133
- msgid "Some examples:"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:510
+ msgid ""
+ "Generate the given checksum. These options default to on, when turned off "
+ "the generated index files will not have the checksum fields where possible. "
+ "Configuration Items: "
+ "<literal>APT::FTPArchive::<replaceable>Checksum</replaceable></literal> and "
+ "<literal>APT::FTPArchive::<replaceable>Index</replaceable>::<replaceable>Checksum</replaceable></literal> "
+ "where <literal><replaceable>Index</replaceable></literal> can be "
+ "<literal>Packages</literal>, <literal>Sources</literal> or "
+ "<literal>Release</literal> and "
+ "<literal><replaceable>Checksum</replaceable></literal> can be "
+ "<literal>MD5</literal>, <literal>SHA1</literal> or "
+ "<literal>SHA256</literal>."
msgstr ""
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- #: sources.list.5.xml:135
- #, no-wrap
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:521
msgid ""
- "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian &stable-codename; main contrib non-free\n"
- "deb http://security.debian.org/ &stable-codename;/updates main contrib "
- "non-free\n"
- " "
+ "Use a binary caching DB. This has no effect on the generate command. "
+ "Configuration Item: <literal>APT::FTPArchive::DB</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><title>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:141
- msgid "URI specification"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:527
+ msgid ""
+ "Quiet; produces output suitable for logging, omitting progress indicators. "
+ "More q's will produce more quiet up to a maximum of 2. You can also use "
+ "<option>-q=#</option> to set the quiet level, overriding the configuration "
+ "file. Configuration Item: <literal>quiet</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:143
- msgid "The currently recognized URI types are:"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:535
+ msgid ""
+ "Perform Delinking. If the <literal>External-Links</literal> setting is used "
+ "then this option actually enables delinking of the files. It defaults to on "
+ "and can be turned off with <option>--no-delink</option>. Configuration "
+ "Item: <literal>APT::FTPArchive::DeLinkAct</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:147
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:543
msgid ""
- "The file scheme allows an arbitrary directory in the file system to be "
- "considered an archive. This is useful for NFS mounts and local mirrors or "
- "archives."
+ "Perform contents generation. When this option is set and package indexes are "
+ "being generated with a cache DB then the file listing will also be extracted "
+ "and stored in the DB for later use. When using the generate command this "
+ "option also allows the creation of any Contents files. The default is on. "
+ "Configuration Item: <literal>APT::FTPArchive::Contents</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:154
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:553
msgid ""
- "The cdrom scheme allows APT to use a local CDROM drive with media "
- "swapping. Use the &apt-cdrom; program to create cdrom entries in the source "
- "list."
+ "Select the source override file to use with the <literal>sources</literal> "
+ "command. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::FTPArchive::SourceOverride</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:161
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:559
msgid ""
- "The http scheme specifies an HTTP server for the archive. If an environment "
- "variable <envar>http_proxy</envar> is set with the format "
- "http://server:port/, the proxy server specified in <envar>http_proxy</envar> "
- "will be used. Users of authenticated HTTP/1.1 proxies may use a string of "
- "the format http://user:pass@server:port/. Note that this is an insecure "
- "method of authentication."
+ "Make the caching databases read only. Configuration Item: "
+ "<literal>APT::FTPArchive::ReadOnlyDB</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:172
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:564
msgid ""
- "The ftp scheme specifies an FTP server for the archive. APT's FTP behavior "
- "is highly configurable; for more information see the &apt-conf; manual "
- "page. Please note that a ftp proxy can be specified by using the "
- "<envar>ftp_proxy</envar> environment variable. It is possible to specify a "
- "http proxy (http proxy servers often understand ftp urls) using this method "
- "and ONLY this method. ftp proxies using http specified in the configuration "
- "file will be ignored."
+ "Accept in the <literal>packages</literal> and <literal>contents</literal> "
+ "commands only package files matching <literal>*_arch.deb</literal> or "
+ "<literal>*_all.deb</literal> instead of all package files in the given "
+ "path. Configuration Item: <literal>APT::FTPArchive::Architecture</literal>."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:183
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:572
msgid ""
- "The copy scheme is identical to the file scheme except that packages are "
- "copied into the cache directory instead of used directly at their location. "
- "This is useful for people using a zip disk to copy files around with APT."
+ "&apt-ftparchive; caches as much as possible of metadata in a cachedb. If "
+ "packages are recompiled and/or republished with the same version again, this "
+ "will lead to problems as the now outdated cached metadata like size and "
+ "checksums will be used. With this option enabled this will no longer happen "
+ "as it will be checked if the file was changed. Note that this option is set "
+ "to \"<literal>false</literal>\" by default as it is not recommend to upload "
+ "multiply versions/builds of a package with the same versionnumber, so in "
+ "theory nobody will have these problems and therefore all these extra checks "
+ "are useless."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><
para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:190
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:584
msgid ""
- "The rsh/ssh method invokes rsh/ssh to connect to a remote host as a given "
- "user and access the files. It is a good idea to do prior arrangements with "
- "RSA keys or rhosts. Access to files on the remote uses standard "
- "<command>find</command> and <command>dd</command> commands to perform the "
- "file transfers from the remote."
+ "This configuration option defaults to \"<literal>true</literal>\" and should "
+ "only be set to <literal>\"false\"</literal> if the Archive generated with "
+ "&apt-ftparchive; also provides <filename>Translation</filename> files. Note "
+ "that the <filename>Translation-en</filename> master file can only be created "
+ "in the generate command."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><variablelist><varlistentry><term>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:198
- msgid "adding more recognizable URI types"
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><programlisting>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:602
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid ""
+ "<command>apt-ftparchive</command> packages "
+ "<replaceable>directory</replaceable> | <command>gzip</command> > "
+ "<filename>Packages.gz</filename>\n"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><variablelist><varlistentry><listitem><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:200
+ #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:598
msgid ""
- "APT can be extended with more methods shipped in other optional packages "
- "which should follow the nameing scheme "
- "<package>apt-transport-<replaceable>method</replaceable></package>. The APT "
- "team e.g. maintains also the <package>apt-transport-https</package> package "
- "which provides access methods for https-URIs with features similar to the "
- "http method, but other methods for using e.g. debtorrent are also available, "
- "see &apt-transport-debtorrent;."
+ "To create a compressed Packages file for a directory containing binary "
+ "packages (.deb): <placeholder type=\"programlisting\" id=\"0\"/>"
msgstr ""
#. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:212
+ #: apt-ftparchive.1.xml:612
msgid ""
- "Uses the archive stored locally (or NFS mounted) at /home/jason/debian for "
- "stable/main, stable/contrib, and stable/non-free."
+ "<command>apt-ftparchive</command> returns zero on normal operation, decimal "
+ "100 on error."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><literallayout>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:214
+ #. type: TH
+ #: apt.8:17
#, no-wrap
- msgid "deb file:/home/jason/debian stable main contrib non-free"
+ msgid "apt"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:216
- msgid "As above, except this uses the unstable (development) distribution."
+ #. type: TH
+ #: apt.8:17
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "16 June 1998"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><literallayout>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:217
+ #. type: TH
+ #: apt.8:17
#, no-wrap
- msgid "deb file:/home/jason/debian unstable main contrib non-free"
+ msgid "Debian"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:219
- msgid "Source line for the above"
+ #. type: SH
+ #: apt.8:18
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "NAME"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><literallayout>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:220
+ #. type: Plain text
+ #: apt.8:20
+ msgid "apt - Advanced Package Tool"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: SH
+ #: apt.8:20
#, no-wrap
- msgid "deb-src file:/home/jason/debian unstable main contrib non-free"
+ msgid "SYNOPSIS"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:222
- msgid ""
- "The first line gets package information for the architectures in "
- "<literal>APT::Architectures</literal> while the second always retrieves "
- "<literal>amd64</literal> and <literal>armel</literal>."
+ #. type: Plain text
+ #: apt.8:22
+ msgid "B<apt>"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><literallayout>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:224
+ #. type: SH
+ #: apt.8:22
#, no-wrap
- msgid ""
- "deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian &stable-codename; main\n"
- "deb [ arch=amd64,armel ] http://ftp.debian.org/debian &stable-codename; main"
+ msgid "DESCRIPTION"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:227
+ #. type: Plain text
+ #: apt.8:31
msgid ""
- "Uses HTTP to access the archive at archive.debian.org, and uses only the "
- "hamm/main area."
+ "APT is a management system for software packages. For normal day to day "
+ "package management there are several frontends available, such as "
+ "B<aptitude>(8) for the command line or B<synaptic>(8) for the X Window "
+ "System. Some options are only implemented in B<apt-get>(8) though."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><literallayout>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:229
+ #. type: SH
+ #: apt.8:31
#, no-wrap
- msgid "deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive hamm main"
+ msgid "SEE ALSO"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:231
+ #. type: Plain text
+ #: apt.8:38
msgid ""
- "Uses FTP to access the archive at ftp.debian.org, under the debian "
- "directory, and uses only the &stable-codename;/contrib area."
+ "B<apt-cache>(8), B<apt-get>(8), B<apt.conf>(5), B<sources.list>(5), "
+ "B<apt_preferences>(5), B<apt-secure>(8)"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><literallayout>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:233
+ #. type: SH
+ #: apt.8:38
#, no-wrap
- msgid "deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian &stable-codename; contrib"
+ msgid "DIAGNOSTICS"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:235
- msgid ""
- "Uses FTP to access the archive at ftp.debian.org, under the debian "
- "directory, and uses only the unstable/contrib area. If this line appears as "
- "well as the one in the previous example in <filename>sources.list</filename> "
- "a single FTP session will be used for both resource lines."
+ #. type: Plain text
+ #: apt.8:40
+ msgid "apt returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 on error."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><literallayout>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:239
+ #. type: SH
+ #: apt.8:40
#, no-wrap
- msgid "deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable contrib"
+ msgid "BUGS"
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para><literallayout>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:248
- #, no-wrap
- msgid "deb http://ftp.tlh.debian.org/universe unstable/binary-$(ARCH)/"
+ #. type: Plain text
+ #: apt.8:42
+ msgid "This manpage isn't even started."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:241
+ #. type: Plain text
+ #: apt.8:51
msgid ""
- "Uses HTTP to access the archive at ftp.tlh.debian.org, under the universe "
- "directory, and uses only files found under "
- "<filename>unstable/binary-i386</filename> on i386 machines, "
- "<filename>unstable/binary-amd64</filename> on amd64, and so forth for other "
- "supported architectures. [Note this example only illustrates how to use the "
- "substitution variable; official debian archives are not structured like "
- "this] <placeholder type=\"literallayout\" id=\"0\"/>"
+ "See E<lt>http://bugs.debian.org/aptE<gt>. If you wish to report a bug in "
+ "B<apt>, please see I</usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt> or the "
+ "B<reportbug>(1) command."
msgstr ""
- #. type: Content of: <refentry><refsect1><para>
- #: sources.list.5.xml:253
- msgid "&apt-cache; &apt-conf;"
+ #. type: SH
+ #: apt.8:51
+ #, no-wrap
+ msgid "AUTHOR"
+ msgstr ""
+
+ #. type: Plain text
+ #: apt.8:52
+ msgid "apt was written by the APT team E<lt>apt@packages.debian.orgE<gt>."
msgstr ""
#. type: <title></title>
"To enable the APT method you need to select [A]ccess in <prgn>dselect</prgn> "
"and then choose the APT method. You will be prompted for a set of "
"<em>Sources</em> which are places to fetch archives from. These can be "
- "remote Internet sites, local Debian mirrors or CDROMs. Each source can "
+ "remote Internet sites, local Debian mirrors or CD-ROMs. Each source can "
"provide a fragment of the total Debian archive, APT will automatically "
- "combine them to form a complete set of packages. If you have a CDROM then it "
- "is a good idea to specify it first and then specify a mirror so that you "
+ "combine them to form a complete set of packages. If you have a CD-ROM then "
+ "it is a good idea to specify it first and then specify a mirror so that you "
"have access to the latest bug fixes. APT will automatically use packages on "
- "your CDROM before downloading from the Internet."
+ "your CD-ROM before downloading from the Internet."
msgstr ""
#. type: <example></example>
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