From 1a3a14ac63b0c4f18de53a7bddcf79d20a5e814f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 18:13:00 +0200 Subject: sources.list and indextargets option for pdiffs Disabling pdiffs can be useful occasionally, like if you have a fast local mirror where the download doesn't matter, but still want to use it for non-local mirrors. Also, some users might prefer it to only use it for very big indextargets like Contents. --- doc/acquire-additional-files.txt | 10 +++++++++- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc/acquire-additional-files.txt') diff --git a/doc/acquire-additional-files.txt b/doc/acquire-additional-files.txt index 71ce7b0cb..9110bfe79 100644 --- a/doc/acquire-additional-files.txt +++ b/doc/acquire-additional-files.txt @@ -85,7 +85,15 @@ file if it is available and uncompress it for you, just as it will also use pdiff patching if provided by the repository and enabled by the user. You only have to ensure that the Release file contains the information about the compressed files/pdiffs to make this happen. -NO properties have to be set to enable this. +*NO* properties have to be set to enable this! + + +Additional properties exist, but these should *NOT* be set by frontends +requesting files. They exist for internal and end-user usage only: +* PDiffs: controls if apt will try to use pdiffs for this target. + Defaults to the value of Acquire::PDiffs which is true by default. + Can be overridden per-source by the sources.list option of the same + name. See the documentation for both of these for details. # More examples -- cgit v1.2.3