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Differences between current version and predecessor to the previous major change of apt.conf(5).

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Newer page: version 6 Last edited on Friday, March 11, 2005 10:13:12 am by JohnMcPherson
Older page: version 3 Last edited on Tuesday, June 4, 2002 12:30:36 am by perry Revert
@@ -1,19 +1,6 @@
-APT.CONF  
 !!!APT.CONF 
-NAME  
-DESCRIPTION  
-THE APT GROUP  
-THE ACQUIRE GROUP  
-DIRECTORIES  
-APT IN DSELECT  
-HOW APT CALLS DPKG  
-DEBUG OPTIONS  
-EXAMPLES  
-FILES  
-SEE ALSO  
-BUGS  
-AUTHOR  
+  
 ---- 
 !!NAME 
  
  
@@ -84,9 +71,10 @@
  
 System Architecture; sets the architecture to use when 
 fetching files and parsing package lists. The internal 
 default is the architecture apt was compiled 
-for. 
+for. Architecture refers to the processor type in your  
+system
  
  
 __Ignore-Hold__ 
  
@@ -140,25 +128,25 @@
  
 __Get__ 
  
  
-The Get subsection controls the __ apt-get__ (8) tool, 
+The Get subsection controls the apt-get(8) tool, 
 please see its documentation for more information about the 
 options here. 
  
  
 __Cache__ 
  
  
-The Cache subsection controls the __ apt-cache__ (8) tool, 
+The Cache subsection controls the apt-cache(8) tool, 
 please see its documentation for more information about the 
 options here. 
  
  
 __CDROM__ 
  
  
-The CDROM subsection controls the __ apt-cdrom__ (8) tool, 
+The CDROM subsection controls the apt-cdrom(8) tool, 
 please see its documentation for more information about the 
 options here. 
 !!THE ACQUIRE GROUP 
  
@@ -354,17 +342,17 @@
  
 __Options__ 
  
  
-The contents of this variable is passed to __ apt-get__ (8) 
+The contents of this variable is passed to apt-get(8) 
 as command line options when it is run for the install 
 phase. 
  
  
 __!UpdateOptions__ 
  
  
-The contents of this variable is passed to __ apt-get__ (8) 
+The contents of this variable is passed to apt-get(8) 
 as command line options when it is run for the update 
 phase. 
  
  
@@ -428,9 +416,9 @@
  
 __Build-Options__ 
  
  
-These options are passed to __ dpkg-buildpackage__ (1) when 
+These options are passed to dpkg-buildpackage(1) when 
 compiling packages, the default is to disable signing and 
 produce all binaries. 
 !!DEBUG OPTIONS 
  
@@ -455,10 +443,10 @@
 ''/etc/apt/apt.conf'' 
 !!SEE ALSO 
  
  
-__ apt-cache__ (8), __ apt-config__ (8),  
-__ apt_preferences__ (5). 
+apt-cache(8), apt-config(8),  
+apt_preferences(5). 
 !!BUGS 
  
  
 See the APT bug page 
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