Re: APT configuration file

[Wayne Topa <linuxtwo@gmail.com>]

Kc9EYE wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 12:28 AM, Cameron Hutchison<lists@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?


Honestly, I don't know.  I haven't used apt-get since aptitude was
recommended over it some time ago.

'locate default |grep aptitude' does show default files for aptitude, 
but I don't see any for apt-get.

A quick look at the apt-get man page shows some of the defaults.
'man apt-get |grep default'

If you really want to know you can get the source for apt-config and 
figure it out from that.


Waybe