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diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index 9973fe42b..42119baa5 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -386,10 +386,12 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; <para><literal>Acquire::http::AllowRedirect</literal> controls whether APT will follow redirects, which is enabled by default.</para> - <para>The used bandwidth can be limited with <literal>Acquire::http::Dl-Limit</literal> - which accepts integer values in kilobytes. The default value is 0 which deactivates - the limit and tries to use all available bandwidth (note that this option implicitly - disables downloading from multiple servers at the same time.)</para> + <para>The used bandwidth can be limited with + <literal>Acquire::http::Dl-Limit</literal> which accepts integer + values in kilobytes per second. The default value is 0 which + deactivates the limit and tries to use all available bandwidth. + Note that this option implicitly disables downloading from + multiple servers at the same time.</para> <para><literal>Acquire::http::User-Agent</literal> can be used to set a different User-Agent for the http download method as some proxies allow access for clients @@ -686,7 +688,8 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; <literal>options</literal> this must be specified in list notation. The commands are invoked in order using <filename>/bin/sh</filename>; should any fail APT will abort. APT will pass the filenames of all .deb files it is going to - install to the commands, one per line on standard input.</para> + install to the commands, one per line on the requested file descriptor, defaulting + to standard input.</para> <para>Version 2 of this protocol dumps more information, including the protocol version, the APT configuration space and the packages, files @@ -698,7 +701,15 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; <literal>DPkg::Tools::options::<replaceable>cmd</replaceable>::Version</literal> accordingly, the default being version 1. If APT isn't supporting the requested version it will send the information in the highest version it has support for instead. - </para></listitem> + </para> + + <para>The file descriptor to be used to send the information can be requested with + <literal>DPkg::Tools::options::<replaceable>cmd</replaceable>::InfoFD</literal> + which defaults to <literal>0</literal> for standard input and is available since + version 0.9.11. Support for the option can be detected by looking for the environment + variable <envar>APT_HOOK_INFO_FD</envar> which contains the number of the used + file descriptor as a confirmation.</para> + </listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry><term><option>Run-Directory</option></term> |