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| author | Cédric Barboiron <ced@winkie.fr> | 2014-07-08 11:24:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Michael Vogt <mvo@debian.org> | 2014-07-08 11:24:46 +0200 |
| commit | 4b73368d8a648247d2695849beba53a2be74151a (patch) | |
| tree | 8fb7796fca6d5572952d9098ff0e5048f96210ab | |
| parent | 3c528b911af131028486d4873d5dcbd0682ed15e (diff) | |
| download | apt-4b73368d8a648247d2695849beba53a2be74151a.tar.gz | |
Improve description how to turn off the caches
Closes: #753531
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apt.conf.5.xml | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml index fcbf20da..ffecc6ce 100644 --- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml +++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml @@ -608,10 +608,11 @@ DPkg::Pre-Install-Pkgs {"/usr/sbin/dpkg-preconfigure --apt";}; information, such as the two package caches <literal>srcpkgcache</literal> and <literal>pkgcache</literal> as well as the location to place downloaded archives, <literal>Dir::Cache::archives</literal>. Generation of caches can be turned off - by setting their names to the empty string. This will slow down startup but - save disk space. It is probably preferable to turn off the pkgcache rather - than the srcpkgcache. Like <literal>Dir::State</literal> the default - directory is contained in <literal>Dir::Cache</literal></para> + by setting <literal>pkgcache</literal> or <literal>srcpkgcache</literal> to + <literal>""</literal>. This will slow down startup but save disk space. It + is probably preferable to turn off the pkgcache rather than the srcpkgcache. + Like <literal>Dir::State</literal> the default directory is contained in + <literal>Dir::Cache</literal></para> <para><literal>Dir::Etc</literal> contains the location of configuration files, <literal>sourcelist</literal> gives the location of the sourcelist and |