On Thursday 23 July 2009 13:30:08 Rustam wrote: > 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?
> > IMO, it reads all config files in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ > plus apt.conf if exists On my Lenny system apt-config dumps far, far more than is in all the files in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ put together, and there is no apt.conf file; yet apt-config must be reading from somewhere. In my case too I have an untouched Apt on a fresh install, tho' it actually is a fresh install - from the net. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
