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-rw-r--r--doc/examples/configure-index4
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
index 64a26bc4a..ffbcba5a4 100644
--- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
+++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
@@ -776,6 +776,13 @@ APT::Compressor::rev {
using the list notation and each list item is passed as a single argument
to &dpkg;.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry><term><option>Path</option></term>
+ <listitem><para>This is a string that defines the <envar>PATH</envar>
+ environment variable used when running dpkg. It may be set to any
+ valid value of that environment variable; or the empty string, in
+ which case the variable is not changed.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>Pre-Invoke</option></term><term><option>Post-Invoke</option></term>
<listitem><para>This is a list of shell commands to run before/after invoking &dpkg;.
diff --git a/doc/examples/configure-index b/doc/examples/configure-index
index 3dd6e0afc..743e676de 100644
--- a/doc/examples/configure-index
+++ b/doc/examples/configure-index
@@ -462,6 +462,10 @@ DPkg
// Probably don't want to use force-downgrade..
Options {"--force-overwrite";"--force-downgrade";}
+ // Defaults to /usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin, might be set to empty
+ // string to inherit from environment
+ Path "<STRING>";
+
// Auto re-mounting of a readonly /usr
Pre-Invoke {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";};
Post-Invoke {"mount -o remount,ro /usr";};