From 1fc0d435891dc9496a71a680032918dab2372e6d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jakub Wilk Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:01:27 +0100 Subject: * doc/apt.conf.5.xml: - fix multipl{y,e} spelling error reported by Jakub Wilk (Closes: #607636) --- doc/apt.conf.5.xml | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc/apt.conf.5.xml') diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index f00baacea..a19d85dbc 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -618,7 +618,7 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; dpkg trigger usage (and related options) APT can call dpkg in a way so it can make aggressive use of triggers over - multiply calls of dpkg. Without further options dpkg will use triggers only in between his + multiple calls of dpkg. Without further options dpkg will use triggers only in between his own run. Activating these options can therefore decrease the time needed to perform the install / upgrade. Note that it is intended to activate these options per default in the future, but as it changes the way APT calling dpkg drastically it needs a lot more testing. -- cgit v1.2.3 From 5d88572318ed7e271101b1ae8f2cc139a1a3f705 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 16:19:30 +0100 Subject: - change the internal handling of Extensions in pkgAcqIndex - add a special uncompressed compression type to prefer those files * methods/{gzip,bzip}.cc: - print a good error message if FileSize() is zero --- doc/apt.conf.5.xml | 9 ++++----- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/apt.conf.5.xml') diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index a19d85dbc..a423dac24 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -442,12 +442,11 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; the bzip2 method (the inbuilt) setting is Dir::Bin::bzip2 "/bin/bzip2"; Note also that list entries specified on the command line will be added at the end of the list specified in the configuration files, but before the default entries. To prefer a type in this case - over the ones specified in in the configuration files you can set the option direct - not in list style. + over the ones specified in the configuration files you can set the option direct - not in list style. This will not override the defined list, it will only prefix the list with this type. - While it is possible to add an empty compression type to the order list, but APT in its current - version doesn't understand it correctly and will display many warnings about not downloaded files - - these warnings are most of the time false negatives. Future versions will maybe include a way to - really prefer uncompressed files to support the usage of local mirrors. + The special type uncompressed can be used to give uncompressed files a + preference, but note that most archives doesn't provide uncompressed files so this is mostly only + useable for local mirrors. GzipIndexes -- cgit v1.2.3