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| author | David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> | 2015-06-23 17:26:57 +0200 |
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| committer | David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> | 2015-08-10 17:25:26 +0200 |
| commit | 0741daeb7ab870b4dd62a93fa12a1cf6330f9a72 (patch) | |
| tree | 1bd18df3d5ebf572de93fd6ca11fb3d7b316d075 /doc/apt.conf.5.xml | |
| parent | 5ad0096a4e19e191b59634e8a8817995ec4045ad (diff) | |
add sources.list Check-Valid-Until and Valid-Until-{Max,Min} options
These options could be set via configuration before, but the connection
to the actual sources is so strong that they should really be set in the
sources.list instead – especially as this can be done a lot more
specific rather than e.g. disabling Valid-Until for all sources at once.
Valid-Until-* names are chosen instead of the Min/Max-ValidTime as this
seems like a better name and their use in the wild is probably low
enough that this isn't going to confuse anyone if we have to names for
the same thing in different areas.
In the longrun, the config options should be removed, but for now
documentation hinting at the new options is good enough as these are the
kind of options you set once across many systems with different apt
versions, so the new way should work everywhere first before we
deprecate the old way.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/apt.conf.5.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apt.conf.5.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index 7d5f7e9b3..103d0622c 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -301,6 +301,8 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; <literal>Valid-Until</literal> header, but if they don't or a stricter value is desired the <literal>Max-ValidTime</literal> option below can be used. + The <option>Check-Valid-Until</option> option of &sources-list; entries should be + preferred to disable the check selectively instead of using this global override. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -312,7 +314,8 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; the earlier date of the two is used as the expiration date. The default value is <literal>0</literal> which stands for "valid forever". Archive specific settings can be made by appending the label of the archive - to the option name. + to the option name. Preferably, the same can be achieved for specific + &sources-list; entries by using the <option>Valid-Until-Max</option> option there. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -324,7 +327,8 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; frequently updated archive with a <literal>Valid-Until</literal> header instead of completely disabling the expiration date checking. Archive specific settings can and should be used by appending the label of - the archive to the option name. + the archive to the option name. Preferably, the same can be achieved for specific + &sources-list; entries by using the <option>Valid-Until-Min</option> option there. </para></listitem> </varlistentry> |