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| author | David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com> | 2009-09-24 12:17:34 +0200 |
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| committer | David Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com> | 2009-09-24 12:17:34 +0200 |
| commit | 5900bd8dd90ebe61697a82fc18f3b1a9edaeedfa (patch) | |
| tree | 011557afa0ea7c74909b3b6d6d2dc7841fd4542e | |
| parent | a874991b8549397fb26c47bbf229854556a3fb60 (diff) | |
document the Acquire::http::Dl-Limit option in the manpage
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/changelog | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apt.conf.5.xml | 7 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
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.</para></listitem> + require this are in violation of RFC 2068.</para> + + <para>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 bandwith (Note that this option implicit + deactivates the download from multiple servers at the same time.)</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry><term>https</term> |