From 4494239cc6d519b0b6219387ecd684b42b5c2d79 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:20:12 +0100 Subject: add config setting for User-Agent in http and https to the Acquire group, thanks Timothy J. Miller! (Closes: #355782) --- doc/apt.conf.5.xml | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc/apt.conf.5.xml') diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index e2db9defb..726bca2cc 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -275,7 +275,12 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; The used bandwidth can be limited with Acquire::http::Dl-Limit which accepts integer values in kilobyte. The default value is 0 which deactivates the limit and tries uses as much as possible of the bandwidth (Note that this option implicit - deactivates the download from multiple servers at the same time.) + deactivates the download from multiple servers at the same time.) + + Acquire::http::User-Agent can be used to set a different + User-Agent for the http download method as some proxies allow access for clients + only if the client uses a known identifier. + https -- cgit v1.2.3 From c0d438474bac961897f9e9472356222f79350c39 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 23:29:57 +0100 Subject: add https options which default to the ones from http for the https method as this is more sane than using only the http options without a possibility to override these for https. --- doc/apt.conf.5.xml | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/apt.conf.5.xml') diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index 726bca2cc..d7ad51cfb 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -284,9 +284,11 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; https - HTTPS URIs. Cache-control and proxy options are the same as for - http method. - Pipeline-Depth option is not supported yet. + HTTPS URIs. Cache-control, Timeout, AllowRedirect, Dl-Limit and + proxy options are the same as for http method and will also + default to the options from the http method if they are not + explicitly set for https. Pipeline-Depth option is not + supported yet. CaInfo suboption specifies place of file that holds info about trusted certificates. -- cgit v1.2.3 From 45df0ad2aab7d019cec855ba2cfe7ecdd0f8c7c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:23:08 +0100 Subject: [BREAK] add possibility to download and use multiply Translation files, configurable with Acquire::Languages accessable with APT::Configuration::getLanguages() and as always with documentation in apt.conf. The commit also includes a very very simple testapp. --- doc/apt.conf.5.xml | 24 +++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc/apt.conf.5.xml') diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index d7ad51cfb..777630e14 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; Default release to install packages from if more than one version available. Contains release name, codename or release version. Examples: 'stable', 'testing', 'unstable', 'lenny', 'squeeze', '4.0', '5.0*'. See also &apt-preferences;. - + Ignore-Hold Ignore Held packages; This global option causes the problem resolver to ignore held packages in its decision making. @@ -392,6 +392,27 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; 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. + + Languages + The Languages subsection controls which Translation files are downloaded + and in which order APT tries to display the Description-Translations. APT will try to display the first + available Description for the Language which is listed at first. Languages can be defined with their + short or long Languagecodes. Note that not all archives provide Translation + files for every Language - especially the long Languagecodes are rare, so please + inform you which ones are available before you set here impossible values. + The default list includes "environment" and "en". "environment" has a special meaning here: + It will be replaced at runtime with the languagecodes extracted from the LC_MESSAGES enviroment variable. + It will also ensure that these codes are not included twice in the list. If LC_MESSAGES + is set to "C" only the Translation-en file (if available) will be used. + To force apt to use no Translation file use the setting Acquire::Languages=none. "none" + is another special meaning code which will stop the search for a fitting Translation file. + This can be used by the system administrator to let APT know that it should download also this files without + actually use them if not the environment specifies this languages. So the following example configuration will + result in the order "en, de" in an english and in "de, en" in a german localization. Note that "fr" is downloaded, + but not used if APT is not used in a french localization, in such an environment the order would be "fr, de, en". + Acquire::Languages { "environment"; "de"; "en"; "none"; "fr"; }; + + @@ -983,6 +1004,7 @@ is commented. --> + -- cgit v1.2.3 From d456bf5a0a30402b7c1aaf13d220f2319f879fe5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2010 12:54:13 +0100 Subject: Chris Leick spot & fix various typos in all manpages --- doc/apt.conf.5.xml | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 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 777630e14..734ae1fe7 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -166,10 +166,10 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; longer guaranteed to work as their dependency on A is not longer satisfied. The immediate configuration marker is also applied to all dependencies which can generate a problem if the dependencies e.g. form a circle as a dependency with the immediate flag is comparable with a Pre-Dependency. So in theory it is possible - that APT encounters a situation in which it is unable to perform immediate configuration, error out and - refers to this option so the user can deactivate the immediate configuration temporary to be able to perform + that APT encounters a situation in which it is unable to perform immediate configuration, errors out and + refers to this option so the user can deactivate the immediate configuration temporarily to be able to perform an install/upgrade again. Note the use of the word "theory" here as this problem was only encountered by now - in real world a few times in non-stable distribution versions and caused by wrong dependencies of the package + in real world a few times in non-stable distribution versions and was caused by wrong dependencies of the package in question or by a system in an already broken state, so you should not blindly disable this option as the mentioned scenario above is not the only problem immediate configuration can help to prevent in the first place. Before a big operation like dist-upgrade is run with this option disabled it should be tried to @@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; Languages The Languages subsection controls which Translation files are downloaded and in which order APT tries to display the Description-Translations. APT will try to display the first - available Description for the Language which is listed at first. Languages can be defined with their + available Description in the Language which is listed at first. Languages can be defined with their short or long Languagecodes. Note that not all archives provide Translation files for every Language - especially the long Languagecodes are rare, so please inform you which ones are available before you set here impossible values. @@ -407,7 +407,7 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; To force apt to use no Translation file use the setting Acquire::Languages=none. "none" is another special meaning code which will stop the search for a fitting Translation file. This can be used by the system administrator to let APT know that it should download also this files without - actually use them if not the environment specifies this languages. So the following example configuration will + actually use them if the environment doesn't specify this languages. So the following example configuration will result in the order "en, de" in an english and in "de, en" in a german localization. Note that "fr" is downloaded, but not used if APT is not used in a french localization, in such an environment the order would be "fr, de, en". Acquire::Languages { "environment"; "de"; "en"; "none"; "fr"; }; -- cgit v1.2.3 From 02dceb31f77f0812c76334a1758631c7cf9544a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 00:22:31 +0100 Subject: add configuration PDiffs::Limit-options (FileLimit and SizeLimit) to not download too many or too big patches (Closes: #554349) --- doc/apt.conf.5.xml | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'doc/apt.conf.5.xml') diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index 734ae1fe7..fd50e377f 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -221,7 +221,14 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; PDiffs Try to download deltas called PDiffs for Packages or Sources files instead of downloading whole ones. True - by default. + by default. + Two sub-options to limit the use of PDiffs are also available: + With FileLimit can be specified how many PDiff files + are downloaded at most to patch a file. SizeLimit + on the other hand is the maximum precentage of the size of all patches + compared to the size of the targeted file. If one of these limits is + exceeded the complete file is downloaded instead of the patches. + Queue-Mode -- cgit v1.2.3 From c6e29d051cff7036eddf17083ddc6acc6fcc9cdb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies Date: Sat, 2 Jan 2010 17:43:07 +0100 Subject: fix a typo in the apt.conf manpage spotted by lintian W: apt: spelling-error-in-manpage usr/share/man/man5/apt.conf.5.gz enviroment environment --- 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 fd50e377f..e568baa35 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -408,7 +408,7 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; files for every Language - especially the long Languagecodes are rare, so please inform you which ones are available before you set here impossible values. The default list includes "environment" and "en". "environment" has a special meaning here: - It will be replaced at runtime with the languagecodes extracted from the LC_MESSAGES enviroment variable. + It will be replaced at runtime with the languagecodes extracted from the LC_MESSAGES environment variable. It will also ensure that these codes are not included twice in the list. If LC_MESSAGES is set to "C" only the Translation-en file (if available) will be used. To force apt to use no Translation file use the setting Acquire::Languages=none. "none" -- cgit v1.2.3 From e29a6bb14dcc004d174ad8502b76623139fbee06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 23:09:42 +0100 Subject: Fix the newly introduced method GetListOfFilesInDir to not accept every file if no extension is enforced (= restore old behaviour). (Closes: #565213) This commit includes also: * apt-pkg/policy.cc: - accept also partfiles with "pref" file extension as valid * apt-pkg/contrib/configuration.cc: - accept also partfiles with "conf" file extension as valid * doc/apt.conf.5.xml: - reorder description and split out syntax - add partfile name convention (Closes: #558348) * doc/apt_preferences.conf.5.xml: - describe partfile name convention also here And a lovely test application of course. --- doc/apt.conf.5.xml | 33 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/apt.conf.5.xml') diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index e568baa35..c13ad4867 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ &apt-email; &apt-product; - 18 September 2009 + 16 January 2010 @@ -37,16 +37,27 @@ Description - apt.conf is the main configuration file for the APT suite of - tools, all tools make use of the configuration file and a common command line - parser to provide a uniform environment. When an APT tool starts up it will - read the configuration specified by the APT_CONFIG environment - variable (if any) and then read the files in Dir::Etc::Parts - then read the main configuration file specified by - Dir::Etc::main then finally apply the - command line options to override the configuration directives, possibly - loading even more config files. - + apt.conf is the main configuration file for + the APT suite of tools, but by far not the only place changes to options + can be made. All tools therefore share the configuration files and also + use a common command line parser to provide a uniform environment. + + When an APT tool starts up it will read the configuration files + in the following order: + the file specified by the APT_CONFIG + environment variable (if any) + all files in Dir::Etc::Parts in + alphanumeric ascending order which have no or "conf" + as filename extension and which only contain alphanumeric, + hyphen (-), underscore (_) and period (.) characters - + otherwise they will be silently ignored. + the main configuration file specified by + Dir::Etc::main + the command line options are applied to override the + configuration directives or to load even more configuration files. + + + Syntax The configuration file is organized in a tree with options organized into functional groups. Option specification is given with a double colon notation, for instance APT::Get::Assume-Yes is an option within -- cgit v1.2.3 From e1dd65c9f1274621142a20148f23dbd074ac33af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 17:39:21 +0200 Subject: * doc/apt.ent - add entities for the current oldstable/stable/testing codenames * doc/sources.list.5.xml: - use stable-codename instead of stable in the examples (Closes: #531492) * doc/apt_preferences.5.xml: - adapt some examples here to use current codenames as well --- doc/apt.conf.5.xml | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/apt.conf.5.xml') diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index c13ad4867..fe005e0f1 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -150,8 +150,9 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; Default-Release - Default release to install packages from if more than one - version available. Contains release name, codename or release version. Examples: 'stable', 'testing', 'unstable', 'lenny', 'squeeze', '4.0', '5.0*'. See also &apt-preferences;. + Default release to install packages from if more than one + version available. Contains release name, codename or release version. Examples: 'stable', 'testing', + 'unstable', '&stable-codename;', '&testing-codename;', '4.0', '5.0*'. See also &apt-preferences;. Ignore-Hold -- cgit v1.2.3 From b02fffa64833e1f8e2617669d89de0a6d0882747 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2010 10:46:35 +0200 Subject: rename the options, document them and reorder the changelog a bit --- doc/apt.conf.5.xml | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/apt.conf.5.xml') diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index fe005e0f1..0cf4bb663 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -230,6 +230,30 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; and the URI handlers. + Check-Valid-Until + Security related option defaulting to true as an + expiring validation for a Release file prevents longtime replay attacks + and can e.g. also help users to identify no longer updated mirrors - + but the feature depends on the correctness of the time on the user system. + Archive maintainers are encouraged to create Release files with the + Valid-Until header, but if they don't or a stricter value + is volitional the following Max-ValidTime option can be used. + + + + Max-ValidTime + Seconds the Release file should be considered valid after + it was created. The default is "for ever" (0) if the Release file of the + archive doesn't include a Valid-Until header. + If it does then this date is the default. The date from the Release file or + the date specified by the creation time of the Release file + (Date header) plus the seconds specified with this + options are used to check if the validation of a file has expired by using + the earlier date of the two. Archive specific settings can be made by + appending the label of the archive to the option name. + + + PDiffs Try to download deltas called PDiffs for Packages or Sources files instead of downloading whole ones. True -- cgit v1.2.3 From c8c6e61bb039136410a95dac716129d371d14d19 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "martin@piware.de" <> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 10:56:56 +0200 Subject: * doc/apt.conf.5.xml: - Document the new Acquire::GzipIndexes option. --- doc/apt.conf.5.xml | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/apt.conf.5.xml') diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index c13ad4867..410489a73 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -411,6 +411,15 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; really prefer uncompressed files to support the usage of local mirrors. + GzipIndexes + + When downloading gzip compressed indexes (Packages, Sources, or + Translations), keep them gzip compressed locally instead of unpacking + them. This saves quite a lot of disk space at the expense of more CPU + requirements when building the local package caches. False by default. + + + Languages The Languages subsection controls which Translation files are downloaded and in which order APT tries to display the Description-Translations. APT will try to display the first -- cgit v1.2.3 From 1408e219e76e577fb84ef1c48e58337b6569feec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2010 18:40:15 +0200 Subject: * apt-pkg/contrib/fileutl.cc: - show notice about ignored file instead of being always silent - add a Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently list option to control the notice * --- doc/apt.conf.5.xml | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'doc/apt.conf.5.xml') diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index 0cf4bb663..39e2c8e6b 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -507,6 +507,15 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; will be looked up in /tmp/staging/var/lib/dpkg/status. + + + The Ignore-Files-Silently list can be used to specify + which files APT should silently ignore while parsing the files in the + fragment directories. Per default a file which end with .disabled, + ~, .bak or .dpkg-[a-z]+ + is silently ignored. As seen in the last default value these patterns can use regular + expression syntax. + APT in DSelect -- cgit v1.2.3 From dcdf1ef18b37c243fc707869149f7761d964915c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2010 17:00:28 +0200 Subject: * doc/apt.conf.5.xml: - add and document APT::Cache-{Start,Grow,Limit} options for mmap control --- doc/apt.conf.5.xml | 17 ++++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/apt.conf.5.xml') diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index 39e2c8e6b..7b7290794 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -199,9 +199,20 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; anything that those packages depend on. - Cache-Limit - APT uses a fixed size memory mapped cache file to store the 'available' - information. This sets the size of that cache (in bytes). + Cache-Start, Cache-Grow and Cache-Limit + APT uses since version 0.7.26 a resizable memory mapped cache file to store the 'available' + information. Cache-Start acts as a hint to which size the Cache will grow + and is therefore the amount of memory APT will request at startup. The default value is + 20971520 bytes (~20 MB). Note that these amount of space need to be available for APT + otherwise it will likely fail ungracefully, so for memory restricted devices these value should + be lowered while on systems with a lot of configured sources this might be increased. + Cache-Grow defines in byte with the default of 1048576 (~1 MB) how much + the Cache size will be increased in the event the space defined by Cache-Start + is not enough. These value will be applied again and again until either the cache is big + enough to store all information or the size of the cache reaches the Cache-Limit. + The default of Cache-Limit is 0 which stands for no limit. + If Cache-Grow is set to 0 the automatic grow of the cache is disabled. + Build-Essential -- cgit v1.2.3