# for everybody to download
# OTHER_DIRS =
-# Whether it's OK to use an IP address from a known local/private range
+# Whether it's OK for the application to use for sharing files an IP
+# address from a known local or private range (RFC 1918). This should
+# only be set true if you are running your own private apt-p2p network
+# that no one else will be connecting to.
LOCAL_OK = no
# Whether a remote peer can access the statistics page
BUCKET_STALENESS = 1h
# Whether it's OK to add nodes to the routing table that use an IP
-# address from a known local/private range.
+# address from a known local or private range (RFC 1918). This should
+# only be set true if you are running your own private apt-p2p network
+# that no one else will be connecting to.
# If not specified here, the LOCAL_OK value in the DEFAULT section will be used.
# LOCAL_OK = no
entries overriding former ones:
<OrderedList>
<ListItem><para>/etc/apt-p2p/apt-p2p.conf</para></ListItem>
- <ListItem><para>${HOME}/.apt-p2p/apt-p2p.conf</para></ListItem>
+ <ListItem><para>$HOME/.apt-p2p/apt-p2p.conf</para></ListItem>
<ListItem><para>the location specified by the config-file parameter</para></ListItem>
</OrderedList>
</para>
<term><option>CACHE_DIR = <replaceable>directory</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>The <replaceable>directory</replaceable> to store the downloaded files in.
- (Default is ${HOME}/.apt-p2p/cache.)</para>
+ (Default is $HOME/.apt-p2p/cache.)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>LOCAL_OK = <replaceable>boolean</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Whether it's OK to use an IP address from a known local or private range.
+ <para>Whether it's OK for the application to use for sharing files an IP address from a
+ known local or private range (RFC 1918). This should only be set true if you are running
+ your own private apt-p2p network that no one else will be connecting to.
(Default is false)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>LOCAL_OK = <replaceable>boolean</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
- <para>Whether it's OK to add nodes to the routing table that use an IP address
- from a known local or private range.
+ <para>Whether it's OK to add nodes to the routing table that use an IP address from a
+ known local or private range (RFC 1918). This should only be set true if you are running
+ your own private apt-p2p network that no one else will be connecting to.
(Default is to use the value specified in the DEFAULT section.)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<para>Normally &dhpackage; is run from init.d using <command>twistd</command>, in which case no &dhpackage;
options can be specified on the command-line, and all configuration variables are
- read from the default config file locations of ${HOME}/.apt-p2p/apt-p2p.conf and /etc/apt-p2p/apt-p2p.conf.
+ read from the default config file locations of $HOME/.apt-p2p/apt-p2p.conf and /etc/apt-p2p/apt-p2p.conf.
The command is then:</para>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>twistd</command> <arg choice="Req">-y /path/to/&dhpackage;</arg> <arg rep="Repeat"><option>twistd options</option></arg>
<para><ulink url="http://portforward.com/"></ulink></para>
+ </refsect2>
+ <refsect2>
+ <title>PRIVATE NETWORKS</title>
+
+ <para>Apt-P2P is not designed to function as a downloader for multiple
+ clients on a private network. Apt-P2P checks the source of incoming
+ requests and only responds to those from the localhost. For more
+ information:</para>
+
+ <para><ulink url="http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=481243"></ulink></para>
+
</refsect2>
</refsect1>
<refsect1>
<term><option>-c <replaceable>filename</replaceable>,</option> <option>--configfile=<replaceable>filename</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>the <replaceable>filename</replaceable> to use for the configuration file, options found in this
- file are combined with those in ${HOME}/.apt-p2p/apt-p2p.conf and /etc/apt-p2p/apt-p2p.conf
+ file are combined with those in $HOME/.apt-p2p/apt-p2p.conf and /etc/apt-p2p/apt-p2p.conf
(see <citerefentry><refentrytitle>apt-p2p.conf</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for the format of the file)</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
* Fix a lot of lintian warnings and errors
- Update standards version to 3.8.4 (no changes)
+ * Fix various documentation issues
+ (Closes: #518590, #518549, #518548, 518550)
- -- Cameron Dale <camrdale@gmail.com> Sat, 20 Mar 2010 22:48:07 -0700
+ -- Cameron Dale <camrdale@gmail.com> Sat, 20 Mar 2010 23:26:24 -0700
apt-p2p (0.1.5) unstable; urgency=low
Section: net
Priority: optional
Maintainer: Cameron Dale <camrdale@gmail.com>
-Homepage: http://www.camrdale.org/apt-p2p.html
+Homepage: http://www.camrdale.org/apt-p2p/
Standards-Version: 3.8.4
Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5.0.37.2)
Build-Depends-Indep: python, python-support (>= 0.5.4), docbook-to-man