From 5900bd8dd90ebe61697a82fc18f3b1a9edaeedfa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 12:17:34 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] document the Acquire::http::Dl-Limit option in the manpage --- debian/changelog | 2 ++ doc/apt.conf.5.xml | 7 ++++++- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog index 90e5f8de1..4bf132367 100644 --- a/debian/changelog +++ b/debian/changelog @@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ apt (0.7.24) UNRELEASED; urgency=low * apt-pkg/aptconfiguration.cc, doc/apt.conf.5.xml: - add an order subgroup to the compression types to simplify reordering a bit and improve the documentation for this option group. + * doc/apt.conf.5.xml: + - document the Acquire::http::Dl-Limit option * doc/apt.ent, all man pages: - move the description of files to globally usable entities * doc/apt_preferences.5.xml: diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index 67aa933cc..11c086bf2 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -227,7 +227,12 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; indicating how many outstanding requests APT should send. A value of zero MUST be specified if the remote host does not properly linger on TCP connections - otherwise data corruption will occur. Hosts which - require this are in violation of RFC 2068. + require this are in violation of RFC 2068. + + The used bandwidth can be limited with Acquire::http::Dl-Limit + which accepts integer values in kilobyte. The default value is 0 which deactivates + the limit and tries uses as much as possible of the bandwith (Note that this option implicit + deactivates the download from multiple servers at the same time.) https -- 2.50.0