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authorDavid Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>2015-09-14 13:18:29 +0200
committerDavid Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>2015-09-14 15:22:19 +0200
commit24e8f24e1e94ec3816b0bfc7a05d1c4e3f73248e (patch)
tree0d40411af7333733aa11b56516a065892b6d7148 /doc/apt.conf.5.xml
parent63c7141275c8c5c0f6e60f5242785e50cabaf2a0 (diff)
add by-hash sources.list option and document all of by-hash
This changes the semantics of the option (which is renamed too) to be a yes/no value with the special additional value "force" as this allows by-hash to be disabled even if the repository indicates it would be supported and is more in line with our other yes/no options like pdiff which disable themselves if no support can be detected. The feature wasn't documented so far and hasn't reached a (un)stable release yet, so changing it without trying too hard to keep compatibility seems okay.
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diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
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@@ -347,6 +347,16 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>By-Hash</option></term>
+ <listitem><para>Try to download indexes via an URI constructed from a
+ hashsum of the expected file rather than downloaded via a well-known
+ stable filename. True by default, but automatically disabled if the
+ source indicates no support for it. Usage can be forced with the special
+ value "force". Preferably, this can be set for specific &sources-list; entries
+ or index files by using the <option>By-Hash</option> option there.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry><term><option>Queue-Mode</option></term>
<listitem><para>Queuing mode; <literal>Queue-Mode</literal> can be one of <literal>host</literal> or
<literal>access</literal> which determines how APT parallelizes outgoing