On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 06:37 -0500, Kc9EYE wrote: > On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Cameron Hutchison<li...@xdna.net> wrote: > > Just create it with the line you want. No other contents are needed. > > > > The man page for apt.conf(5) describes the syntax of the file and the > > configuration parameters used by apt. > > Thanks for the quick replies. Yes I will copy the apt.conf from the > examples and modify that, but this doesn't answer the question that > there is no /etc/apt/apt.conf configuration file and yet apt-config > dumps configuration data to the screen that it has read from > somewhere. Where is this "default" configuration data being read from? > This is an up to date Lenny install upgraded directly from etch. Apt > has not been manually configured, so this is the default configuration > that apt was installed with. What is the name of the file that > apt-config reads when there is no /etc/apt/apt.conf file? > Thanks, > -- > Paul Lane > KC9EYE > http://www.qsl.net/kc9eye/ > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "Life after all, is a fatal disease, and the mortality rate > for humans, at the end of the day is 100%." > K.C. Cole (from The Universe and the Teacup) > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
IMO, it reads all config files in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ plus apt.conf if exists -- Best Regards, Rustam ---------------- Everybody has something... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
