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authorMichael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>2013-10-22 22:05:15 +0200
committerMichael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>2013-10-22 22:06:24 +0200
commit51355387e5a5d4d7275a34b1c22f0ef5a76172d5 (patch)
treee40c80a0d5268eb42cf71461e5ef9494658e1b7d /doc/apt.conf.5.xml
parentb4017ba767e15dc06c73915efaf36409ee099bf2 (diff)
parent4b9969da40ff1dff2f5787feff5103c873c57f7f (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'upstream/debian/sid' into feature/install-progress-refactor
Conflicts: apt-pkg/deb/dpkgpm.cc apt-pkg/makefile
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@@ -396,6 +396,14 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
<para><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.</para>
+
+ <para><literal>Acquire::http::Proxy-Auto-Detect</literal> can be used to
+ specify a external command to discover the http proxy to use. Apt expects
+ the command to output the proxy on stdout in the style
+ <literal>http://proxy:port/</literal>. See the
+ &squid-deb-proxy-client; package for a example implementation that
+ uses avahi.</para>
+
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