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<refnamediv>
<refname>apt.conf</>
- <refpurpose>Configuratoin file for APT</>
+ <refpurpose>Configuration file for APT</>
</refnamediv>
<RefSect1><Title>Description</>
<VarListEntry><Term>Ignore-Hold</Term>
<ListItem><Para>
- Ignore Held packages; This global options causes the problem resolver to
+ Ignore Held packages; This global option causes the problem resolver to
ignore held packages in its decision making.
</VarListEntry>
<VarListEntry><Term>Queue-Mode</Term>
<ListItem><Para>
Queuing mode; <literal/Queue-Mode/ can be one of <literal/host/ or
- <literal/access/ which determins how APT parallelizes outgoing
+ <literal/access/ which determines how APT parallelizes outgoing
connections. <literal/host/ means that one connection per target host
will be opened, <literal/access/ means that one connection per URI type
will be opened.
<literal/Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth/ can be a value from 0 to 5
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 occure. Hosts which
+ on TCP connections - otherwise data corruption will occur. Hosts which
require this are in violation of RFC 2068.
</VarListEntry>
<VarListEntry><Term>ftp</Term>
<ListItem><Para>
- FTP URis; ftp::Proxy is the default proxy server to use. It is in the
+ FTP URIs; ftp::Proxy is the default proxy server to use. It is in the
standard form of <literal>ftp://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/</> and is
overriden by the <envar/ftp_proxy/ environment variable. To use a ftp
proxy you will have to set the <literal/ftp::ProxyLogin/ script in the
The <literal/Dir::State/ section has directories that pertain to local
state information. <literal/lists/ is the directory to place downloaded
package lists in and <literal/status/ is the name of the dpkg status file.
- <literal/preferences/ is the name of the APT preferencse file.
+ <literal/preferences/ is the name of the APT preferences file.
<literal/Dir::State/ contains the default directory to prefix on all sub
items if they do not start with <filename>/</> or <filename>./</>.
<para>
<RefSect1><Title>APT in DSelect</>
<para>
When APT is used as a &dselect; method several configuration directives
- control the default behavoir. These are in the <literal/DSelect/ section.
+ control the default behaviour. These are in the <literal/DSelect/ section.
<VariableList>
<VarListEntry><Term>Clean</Term>
<VarListEntry><Term>Options</Term>
<ListItem><Para>
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
+ using the list notation and each list item is passed as a single argument
to &dpkg;.
</VarListEntry>
<RefSect1><Title>See Also</>
<para>
- &apt-cache;, &apt-conf;, &apt-preferences;.
+ &apt-cache;, &apt-config;<!-- ? reading apt.conf -->, &apt-preferences;.
</RefSect1>
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