| | 1 | The vendor system in APT is an experiment to help distributions ship a stock |
| | 2 | apt release instead of applying documentation patches to it, increasing |
| | 3 | maintenance burden for everyone and hiding 'interesting' patches in the mix. |
| | 4 | |
| | 5 | The provided information is used in the apt-key script and in documentation |
| | 6 | like manpages and example configuration files. If you have patches modifying |
| | 7 | additional bits and pieces currently not covered by this system please |
| | 8 | contact us so we can change this! |
| | 9 | |
| | 10 | |
| | 11 | == Adding a new vendor |
| | 12 | |
| | 13 | In the same directory you found this README in you should create a new |
| | 14 | directory with the name of your distribution (as defined by dpkg-vendor, |
| | 15 | e.g. via "dpkg-vendor --query Vendor"). The name is case-insensitive, |
| | 16 | but ensure that the name is otherwise correct and the other fields in |
| | 17 | your deb-origin(5) file are correct as well as our buildsystem relies on |
| | 18 | this information. |
| | 19 | |
| | 20 | If no information is found for the current vendor at buildtime, the system |
| | 21 | looks for a vendor the current vendor is a derivative of, falling back to |
| | 22 | Debian if all else fails. |
| | 23 | |
| | 24 | The directory should include 2 files at the moment. It is best to look |
| | 25 | at the files of other distributions to understand what values are to be |
| | 26 | expected. Some additional notes about them can be found below. |
| | 27 | |
| | 28 | If we happen to include new fields/files in this system, we will opt for |
| | 29 | using a sensible default rather than failing the build or similar, so |
| | 30 | you are recommend to watch this space. |
| | 31 | Ensure also that your information is up-to-date! |
| | 32 | |
| | 33 | Contributing a new vendor as well as updating a existing one is best done |
| | 34 | by opening a bug in the Debian BTS against apt with a patch attached. |
| | 35 | |
| | 36 | |
| | 37 | == apt-vendor.ent |
| | 38 | |
| | 39 | The format used is the one DocBook XML uses. The file is included as an |
| | 40 | entity file in the manpages xml source, so the syntax has to be valid! |
| | 41 | |
| | 42 | The keyring-* settings are additionally used also in the creation of the |
| | 43 | apt-key script and the keyring-package in particular as a dependency for apt. |
| | 44 | |
| | 45 | The field current-codename is optional and can be used in sources.list.in. |
| | 46 | |
| | 47 | |
| | 48 | == sources.list.in |
| | 49 | |
| | 50 | An example for a sources.list which will be shipped in /usr/share/doc. |
| | 51 | This file will NOT be installed in /etc or otherwise used by apt. |
| | 52 | |
| | 53 | You can use some placeholders in this file, namely: |
| | 54 | * &debian-stable-codename; |
| | 55 | * &debian-oldstable-codename; |
| | 56 | * &debian-testing-codename; |
| | 57 | * &ubuntu-codename; |
| | 58 | with the value you would expect based on the name. |
| | 59 | |
| | 60 | The placeholder ¤t-codename; is yours and can be set in apt-vendor.ent |
| | 61 | |
| | 62 | |
| | 63 | == apt.conf-* |
| | 64 | |
| | 65 | Files in your vendor directory following this naming scheme will be picked up |
| | 66 | by the debian/rules file and installed in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/ directory. |
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