Colin Ingram wrote:
On a side note: I installed sarge fresh a couple of months ago and I
didn't have a /etc/apt/apt.conf file or /etc/apt/preferences. I
created both by hand.
This is all very mysterious to me, all these people lacking an
apt.conf file.
I wonder how apt can function without it? In particular, how do you
specify
your Debian version?!
Here's an exerpt from "man apt.conf":
APT.CONF(5) APT.CONF(5)
NAME
apt.conf - Configuration file for APT
DESCRIPTION
apt.conf is the main configuration file for the APT suite of tools, all
tools make use of the configuration file and a common command line
parser to provide a uniform environment. When an APT tool starts up it
will read the configuration specified by the APT_CONFIG environment
variable (if any) and then read the files in Dir::Etc::Parts then read
the main configuration file specified by Dir::Etc::main then finally
apply the command line options to override the configuration direc-
tives, possibly loading even more config files.