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authorMichael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>2013-10-22 16:53:32 +0200
committerMichael Vogt <mvo@debian.org>2013-10-22 16:53:32 +0200
commitf62f17b489405432a3125e51471d8a00e78c5170 (patch)
treece2a6e077cb0846e75cbb3d583f4152608100adb /doc/apt.conf.5.xml
parent9aa9db9c88fca3a9266427b0d5cc9ad53df7207e (diff)
parentc08cf1dc784a98a253296a51433f6de7d16d3125 (diff)
Merge branch 'debian/sid' into ubuntu/master
Conflicts: cmdline/apt-key configure.ac debian/apt.auto-removal.sh debian/changelog debian/control debian/rules po/apt-all.pot po/ar.po po/ast.po po/bg.po po/bs.po po/ca.po po/cs.po po/cy.po po/da.po po/de.po po/dz.po po/el.po po/es.po po/eu.po po/fi.po po/fr.po po/gl.po po/hu.po po/it.po po/ja.po po/km.po po/ko.po po/ku.po po/lt.po po/mr.po po/nb.po po/ne.po po/nl.po po/nn.po po/pl.po po/pt.po po/pt_BR.po po/ro.po po/ru.po po/sk.po po/sl.po po/sv.po po/th.po po/tl.po po/uk.po po/vi.po po/zh_CN.po po/zh_TW.po
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diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
index 3cf3136d3..e8da666c7 100644
--- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
+++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
@@ -386,14 +386,24 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
<para><literal>Acquire::http::AllowRedirect</literal> controls whether APT will follow
redirects, which is enabled by default.</para>
- <para>The used bandwidth can be limited with <literal>Acquire::http::Dl-Limit</literal>
- which accepts integer values in kilobytes. The default value is 0 which deactivates
- the limit and tries to use all available bandwidth (note that this option implicitly
- disables downloading from multiple servers at the same time.)</para>
+ <para>The used bandwidth can be limited with
+ <literal>Acquire::http::Dl-Limit</literal> which accepts integer
+ values in kilobytes per second. The default value is 0 which
+ deactivates the limit and tries to use all available bandwidth.
+ Note that this option implicitly disables downloading from
+ multiple servers at the same time.</para>
<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>
+
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -686,13 +696,28 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
<literal>options</literal> this must be specified in list notation. The commands
are invoked in order using <filename>/bin/sh</filename>; should any fail APT
will abort. APT will pass the filenames of all .deb files it is going to
- install to the commands, one per line on standard input.</para>
+ install to the commands, one per line on the requested file descriptor, defaulting
+ to standard input.</para>
- <para>Version 2 of this protocol dumps more information, including the
+ <para>Version 2 of this protocol dumps more information, including the
protocol version, the APT configuration space and the packages, files
- and versions being changed. Version 2 is enabled by setting
- <literal>DPkg::Tools::options::cmd::Version</literal> to 2. <literal>cmd</literal> is a
- command given to <literal>Pre-Install-Pkgs</literal>.</para></listitem>
+ and versions being changed. Version 3 adds the architecture and <literal>MultiArch</literal>
+ flag to each version being dumped.</para>
+
+ <para>The version of the protocol to be used for the command
+ <literal><replaceable>cmd</replaceable></literal> can be chosen by setting
+ <literal>DPkg::Tools::options::<replaceable>cmd</replaceable>::Version</literal>
+ accordingly, the default being version 1. If APT isn't supporting the requested
+ version it will send the information in the highest version it has support for instead.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>The file descriptor to be used to send the information can be requested with
+ <literal>DPkg::Tools::options::<replaceable>cmd</replaceable>::InfoFD</literal>
+ which defaults to <literal>0</literal> for standard input and is available since
+ version 0.9.11. Support for the option can be detected by looking for the environment
+ variable <envar>APT_HOOK_INFO_FD</envar> which contains the number of the used
+ file descriptor as a confirmation.</para>
+ </listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>Run-Directory</option></term>