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| author | Arch Librarian <arch@canonical.com> | 2004-09-20 16:55:50 +0000 |
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| committer | Arch Librarian <arch@canonical.com> | 2004-09-20 16:55:50 +0000 |
| commit | 27b15b3b0c38d1e557feb908393f45abff58eb09 (patch) | |
| tree | 9e40718cf8876a9c949029d8b11652524f2e81f2 /doc/apt.conf.5.yo | |
| parent | 7fd9eec4e33a1afe981a7c26be78a98b8acdb0b3 (diff) | |
Clarified the documenation examples for non-us. Closes:...
Author: jgg
Date: 2000-05-10 05:55:31 GMT
Clarified the documenation examples for non-us. Closes: #58646
Man Page typo. Closes: #60347
Added blurb about the timeout option
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/apt.conf.5.yo')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apt.conf.5.yo | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.yo b/doc/apt.conf.5.yo index 6b5ba8575..d0759802f 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.yo +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.yo @@ -132,6 +132,9 @@ set for archive files. This may be usefull to prevent polluting a proxy cache with very large .deb files. Note: Squid 2.0.2 does not support any of these options. +The option bf(timeout) sets the timeout timer used by the method, this +applies to all things including connection timeout and data timeout. + One setting is provided to control the pipeline depth in cases where the 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 @@ -148,12 +151,16 @@ 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. +The option bf(timeout) sets the timeout timer used by the method, this +applies to all things including connection timeout and data timeout. + 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) + It is possible to proxy FTP over HTTP by setting the em(ftp_proxy) environment variable to a http url - see the discussion of the http method above for syntax. You cannot set this in the configuration file and it is @@ -230,7 +237,7 @@ This is a list of shell commands to run before/after invoking dpkg. Like bf(Options) this must be specified in list notation. The commands are invoked in order using /bin/sh, should any fail APT will abort. -dit(bf(BPre-Install-Pkgs)) +dit(bf(Pre-Install-Pkgs)) This is a list of shell commands to run before invoking dpkg. Like bf(Options) this must be specified in list notation. The commands are invoked in order using /bin/sh, should any fail APT will abort. |