cupt_vs_apt

Langue: en

Autres versions - même langue

Version: 2009-06-21 (debian - 07/07/09)

Section: 5 (Format de fichier)

Sommaire

NAME

cupt_vs_apt - overview of things Cupt and APT differ in

ADVANTAGES

Core

•
pins can be specified also by source package
•
correctness of APT options is checked

Search

•
'search' command searches all versions of package, not policy or installed ones
•
'search' command can search case-sensitively ('--case-sensitive' switch)

Show

•
'show' command can show release description ('--with-release-info' switch)
•
'/<distribution' and '=<version>' suffixes can be used with 'depends' and 'rdepends' commands

Managing packages

•
'satisfy' command is present
•
two types of multi-case problem resolvers available (see --resolver in cupt(1))
•
worker passes '--force-*' options to dpkg only when really needed, not always

Downloading

•
LZMA-compressed index files are supported.
•
HTTP redirects can be followed (see acquire::http::allow-redirects in cupt(1))

DISADVANTAGES

•
working with source packages is not yet implemented
•
translated descriptions are not yet implemented
•
cdrom URI type is not handled

DIFFERENT BEHAVIOR

Configuration

•
'apt::cache::allversions' defaults to 0, not 1 as in apt-cache
•
to explicitly disable proxy, set 'acquire::<protocol>::[<host::]proxy' to "``, not to ''DIRECT"
•
'acquire::<protocol>::[<host>::]proxy' options take precedence over ``<protocol>_proxy'' shell variables
•
'gpgv::trustedkeyring' defaults to '/var/lib/cupt/trusted.gpg'