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apkg.conf(5)

configuration file of the apkg package client

Package: APKG, added for amigaux.

NAME

apkg.conf - configuration file of the apkg package client

SYNOPSIS

/etc/apkg.conf

DESCRIPTION

apkg(1) reads /etc/apkg.conf (or the file named with apkg -c) at start. Each line is key=value; a line starting with # is a comment, and blank lines are ignored. A key the file does not name takes its built-in default, so the file only needs the keys you change.

The file is a conffile(5) of the APKG package: an upgrade keeps your edited file and puts the new default beside it as /etc/apkg.conf.new. The default of the installed version is also always readable as /usr/apkg/lib/apkg.conf.

KEYS

Each key, its default and its full meaning are in apkg(1), section CONFIGURATION.

repo: repository base URL: the release's tree on the host (http://pkg.amigaux.org/1.1)
cachedir: package download cache (/var/apkg/cache). A good install or upgrade removes the packages it fetched from here; the directory is apkg's own
keepcache: 1 keeps the fetched packages after a good transaction (default 0); apkg clean empties the cache
pkgadd, pkgrm: the engine binaries (/usr/apkg/bin/pkgadd, /usr/apkg/bin/pkgrm, falling back to /usr/sbin)
admin: the admin(5) file for pkgadd and pkgrm (/var/apkg/admin)
kbootset, kbootset_journal: the generation composer run after a kernel-space transaction, and its journal
timeout, connect_timeout: seconds of silence on a transfer, and for a connect
retries, retry_delay: further attempts of a failed fetch, and the seconds between them
progress: progress output during a download
bufsize, rcvbuf, sndbuf: the transfer buffer and the socket buffer sizes
redirects: how many HTTP redirects to follow
nameserver: a DNS server to ask when /etc/inet/hosts has no answer (repeatable); with none here, apkg asks those /etc/resolv.conf names
dns_timeout, dns_retries: seconds per DNS query attempt, and further attempts per nameserver

EXAMPLE

# apkg configuration
repo=http://pkg.amigaux.org/1.1
cachedir=/var/apkg/cache
admin=/var/apkg/admin
nameserver=192.0.2.53

FILES

/etc/apkg.conf: this file
/etc/apkg.conf.new: the new default after an upgrade that kept your file
/usr/apkg/lib/apkg.conf: the default of the installed version (not read by apkg)