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1 perry 1 APT-CONFIG
2 !!!APT-CONFIG
3 NAME
4 SYNOPSIS
5 DESCRIPTION
6 OPTIONS
7 SEE ALSO
8 DIAGNOSTICS
9 BUGS
10 AUTHOR
11 ----
12 !!NAME
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15 apt-config - APT Configuration Query program
16 !!SYNOPSIS
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19 __apt-config__ [[ __-hv__ ] [[ __-o=__''config
20 string'' ] [[ __-c=__''file'' ] __[[ shell ] [[ dump
21 ]__
22 !!DESCRIPTION
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25 __apt-config__ is an internal program used by various
26 portions of the APT suite to provide consistent
27 configurability. It accesses the main configuarion file
28 ''/etc/apt/apt.conf'' in a manner that is easy to use by
29 scripted applications.
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32 Unless the __-h__, or __--help__ option is given one
33 of the commands below must be present.
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36 __shell__
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39 shell is used to access the configuration information from a
40 shell script. It is given pairs of arguments, the first
41 being a shell variable and the second the configuration
42 value to query. As output it lists a series of shell
43 assignments commands for each present value. In a shell
44 script it should be used like:
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47 OPTS=
2 perry 48 This will set the shell environment variable $OPTS to the value of !MyApp::Options with a default of __-f__.
1 perry 49
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51 The configuration item may be postfixed with a /[[fdbi]. f
52 returns file names, d returns directories, b returns true or
53 false and i returns an integer. Each of the returns is
54 normalized and verified internally.
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57 __dump__
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60 Just show the contents of the configuration
61 space.
62 !!OPTIONS
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65 All command line options may be set using the configuration
66 file, the descriptions indicate the configuration option to
67 set. For boolean options you can override the config file by
68 using something like __-f-__,__--no-f__, __-f=no__
69 or several other variations.
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72 __-h__
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75 __--help__
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78 Show a short usage summary.
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81 __-v__
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84 __--version__
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87 Show the program verison.
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90 __-c__
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93 __--config-file__
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96 Configuration File; Specify a configuration file to use. The
97 program will read the default configuration file and then
98 this configuration file. See ''apt.conf''(5) for syntax
99 information.
100
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102 __-o__
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105 __--option__
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108 Set a Configuration Option; This will set an arbitary
109 configuration option. The syntax is __-o
110 Foo::Bar=bar__.
111 !!SEE ALSO
112
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114 ''apt.conf''(5)
115 !!DIAGNOSTICS
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118 __apt-config__ returns zero on normal operation, decimal
119 100 on error.
120 !!BUGS
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123 See the APT bug page
124 /usr/share/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt'' or the
125 bug(1) command.
126 !!AUTHOR
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129 APT was written by the APT team
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