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Acquire system {{{

The Acquire system is responsible for retrieving files from local or remote URIs and postprocessing them (for instance, verifying their authenticity). The core class in this system is pkgAcquire, which is responsible for managing the download queues during the download. There is at least one download queue for each supported protocol; protocols such as http may provide one queue per host