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-rw-r--r--debian/changelog2
-rw-r--r--doc/apt.conf.5.xml7
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 90e5f8de1..4bf132367 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ apt (0.7.24) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
* apt-pkg/aptconfiguration.cc, doc/apt.conf.5.xml:
- add an order subgroup to the compression types to simplify reordering
a bit and improve the documentation for this option group.
+ * doc/apt.conf.5.xml:
+ - document the Acquire::http::Dl-Limit option
* doc/apt.ent, all man pages:
- move the description of files to globally usable entities
* doc/apt_preferences.5.xml:
diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
index 67aa933cc..11c086bf2 100644
--- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
+++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
@@ -227,7 +227,12 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";};
indicating how many outstanding requests APT should send. A value of
zero MUST be specified if the remote host does not properly linger
on TCP connections - otherwise data corruption will occur. Hosts which
- require this are in violation of RFC 2068.</para></listitem>
+ require this are in violation of RFC 2068.</para>
+
+ <para>The used bandwidth can be limited with <literal>Acquire::http::Dl-Limit</literal>
+ which accepts integer values in kilobyte. The default value is 0 which deactivates
+ the limit and tries uses as much as possible of the bandwith (Note that this option implicit
+ deactivates the download from multiple servers at the same time.)</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>https</term>