Ignore Held packages; This global options causes the problem resolver to
ignore held packages in its decision making.
+dit(bf(Immediate-Configure))
+Disable Immedate Configuration; This dangerous option disables some
+of APT's ordering code to cause it to make fewer dpkg calls. Doing
+so may be necessary on some extremely slow single user systems but
+is very dangerous and may cause package install scripts to fail or worse.
+Use at your own risk.
+
dit(bf(Get))
The Get subsection controls the bf(apt-get(8)) tool, please see its
documentation for more information about the options here.
one connection per target host will be opened, bf(access) means that one
connection per URI type will be opened.
+dit(bf(Retries))
+Number of retries to perform. If this is non-zero apt will retry failed
+files the given number of times.
+
dit(bf(http))
HTTP URIs; http::Proxy is the default http proxy to use. It is in the standard
form of em(http://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/). Per host proxies can also
Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth can be a value from 0 to 5 indicating how many
outstanding requests APT should send.
+dit(bf(ftp))
+FTP URis; ftp::Proxy is the default proxy server to use. It is in the
+standard form of em(http://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/) and is overriden
+by the ftp_proxy environment variable. To use a ftp proxy you will have to
+set the ftp::ProxyLogin script in the configuration file. This entry
+specifies the commands to send to tell the proxy server what to connect
+to. Please see em(/usr/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf) for an example of how
+to do this. The subsitution variables available are $(PROXY_USER),
+$(PROXY_PASS), $(SITE_USER), $(SITE_PASS), $(SITE), and $(SITE_PORT).
+Each is taken from it's respective URI component.
+
+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)
+
dit(bf(cdrom))
CDROM URIs; the only setting for CDROM URIs is the mount point, cdrom::Mount
which must be the mount point for the CDROM drive as specified in /etc/fstab.
+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). The syntax
+is to put "/cdrom/"::Mount "foo"; within the cdrom block. It is important to
+have the trailing slash. Unmount commands can be specified using UMount.
enddit()
The default is to prompt only on error.
enddit()
+manpagesection(How APT calls DPkg)
+Several configuration directives control how APT invokes dpkg. These are in
+the bf(DPkg) section.
+
+startdit()
+dit(bf(Options))
+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 arugment
+to dpkg.
+
+dit(bf(Pre-Invoke), bf(Post-Invoke))
+This is a list of shell commands to run before/after invoking dpkg. Like
+bf(Options) this must be specified in list notation. The commands
+are invoked in order using /bin/sh, should any fail APT will abort.
+
+dit(bf(Run-Directory))
+APT chdirs to this directory before invoking dpkg, the default is /.
+
+enddit()
+
manpagesection(Debug Options)
Most of the options in the bf(debug) section are not interesting to the
normal user, however bf(Debug::pkgProblemResolver) shows interesting
output about the decisions dist-upgrade makes. bf(Debug::NoLocking)
disables file locking so apt can do some operations as non-root and
-bf(Debug::pkgDPkgPM) will print out the command line for each dpkg invokation.
+bf(Debug::pkgDPkgPM) will print out the command line for each dpkg
+invokation.
manpagesection(EXAMPLES)
bf(/usr/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf) contains a sample configuration file
showing the default values for all possible options.
-mapagesection(FILES)
+manpagesection(FILES)
/etc/apt/apt.conf
manpageseealso()
HCoop / ntk / apt.git / blobdiff