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| author | Arch Librarian <arch@canonical.com> | 2004-09-20 16:53:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Arch Librarian <arch@canonical.com> | 2004-09-20 16:53:04 +0000 |
| commit | 78b558ca4dab74f113cec91362b055263baa8011 (patch) | |
| tree | 5334ddcfc845c77b69a4549230c272c0b694f0a6 /doc/apt.conf.5.yo | |
| parent | f26f6d3820f47ea4f072a0804636c2871a02bf61 (diff) | |
FTP man page updates
Author: jgg
Date: 1999-03-15 23:05:49 GMT
FTP man page updates
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/apt.conf.5.yo')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apt.conf.5.yo | 20 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.yo b/doc/apt.conf.5.yo index 46220db5c..145be2294 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.yo +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.yo @@ -105,6 +105,23 @@ remote server is not RFC conforming or buggy (such as Squid 2.0.2) Acquire::http::Pipeline-Depth can be a value from 0 to 5 indicating how many outstanding requests APT should send. +dit(bf(ftp)) +FTP URis; ftp::Proxy is the default proxy server to use. It is in the +standard form of em(http://[[user][:pass]@]host[:port]/) and is overriden +by the ftp_proxy environment variable. To use a ftp proxy you will have to +set the ftp::ProxyLogin script in the configuration file. This entry +specifies the commands to send to tell the proxy server what to connect +to. Please see em(/usr/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf) for an example of how +to do this. The subsitution variables available are $(PROXY_USER), +$(PROXY_PASS), $(SITE_USER), $(SITE_PASS), $(SITE), and $(SITE_PORT). +Each is taken from it's respective URI component. + +Several settings are provided to control passive mode. Generally it is safe +to leave passive mode on, it works in nearly every environment. However some +situations require that passive mode be disabled and port mode ftp used +instead. This can be done globally, for connections that go through a proxy +or for a specific host (See the sample config file for examples) + dit(bf(cdrom)) CDROM URIs; the only setting for CDROM URIs is the mount point, cdrom::Mount which must be the mount point for the CDROM drive as specified in /etc/fstab. @@ -180,7 +197,8 @@ Most of the options in the bf(debug) section are not interesting to the normal user, however bf(Debug::pkgProblemResolver) shows interesting output about the decisions dist-upgrade makes. bf(Debug::NoLocking) disables file locking so apt can do some operations as non-root and -bf(Debug::pkgDPkgPM) will print out the command line for each dpkg invokation. +bf(Debug::pkgDPkgPM) will print out the command line for each dpkg +invokation. manpagesection(EXAMPLES) bf(/usr/doc/apt/examples/apt.conf) contains a sample configuration file |