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authorJulian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>2018-12-03 17:39:03 +0100
committerJulian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>2018-12-04 17:48:41 +0100
commitbbfcc05c1978decd28df9681fd73e2a7d9a8c2a5 (patch)
tree4282524f2298dfd2b9af869ae70e48b940c6d9d7 /doc
parent37bdbe03d44975951d2518bb9b3d3636081dca6a (diff)
Add support for /etc/apt/auth.conf.d/*.conf (netrcparts)
This allows us to install matching auth files for sources.list.d files, for example; very useful. This converts aptmethod's authfd from one FileFd to a vector of pointers to FileFd, as FileFd cannot be copied, and move operators are hard.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/apt_auth.conf.5.xml7
-rw-r--r--doc/examples/configure-index1
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt_auth.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt_auth.conf.5.xml
index 37e4fbc98..26d14b8e8 100644
--- a/doc/apt_auth.conf.5.xml
+++ b/doc/apt_auth.conf.5.xml
@@ -36,7 +36,8 @@ needed to connect to a proxy or to download data from a repository on the other
hand shouldn't always be accessible by everyone and can hence not be placed in a
file with world-readable file permissions.</para>
-<para>The APT auth.conf file <filename>/etc/apt/auth.conf</filename> can be used to store
+<para>The APT auth.conf file <filename>/etc/apt/auth.conf</filename>, and .conf files inside
+<filename>/etc/apt/auth.conf.d</filename> can be used to store
login information in a netrc-like format with restrictive file permissions.</para>
</refsect1>
@@ -119,6 +120,10 @@ you need multiple they should all have a path specified in the
<listitem><para>Login information for APT sources and proxies in a netrc-like format.
Configuration Item: <literal>Dir::Etc::netrc</literal>.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry><term><filename>/etc/apt/auth.conf.d/*.conf</filename></term>
+ <listitem><para>Login information for APT sources and proxies in a netrc-like format.
+ Configuration Item: <literal>Dir::Etc::netrcparts</literal>.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
diff --git a/doc/examples/configure-index b/doc/examples/configure-index
index 99aedfd19..3dd6e0afc 100644
--- a/doc/examples/configure-index
+++ b/doc/examples/configure-index
@@ -399,6 +399,7 @@ Dir "<DIR>"
Etc "<DIR>" {
Main "<FILE>";
Netrc "<FILE>";
+ NetrcParts "<DIR>";
Parts "<DIR>";
Preferences "<FILE>";
PreferencesParts "<DIR>";