<!ENTITY % aptverbatiment SYSTEM "apt-verbatim.ent">
%aptverbatiment;
+<!ENTITY % aptvendor SYSTEM "apt-vendor.ent">
+%aptvendor;
]>
<refentry>
&apt-email;
&apt-product;
<!-- The last update date -->
- <date>2004-02-29T00:00:00Z</date>
+ <date>2014-01-18T00:00:00Z</date>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<!-- Man page title -->
<refnamediv>
<refname>sources.list</refname>
- <refpurpose>Package resource list for APT</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>List of configured APT data sources</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsect1><title>Description</title>
code in the same form as the <literal>deb</literal> type.
A <literal>deb-src</literal> line is required to fetch source indexes.</para>
-
<para>The format for a <filename>sources.list</filename> entry using the
<literal>deb</literal> and <literal>deb-src</literal> types is:</para>
- <literallayout>deb [ options ] uri distribution [component1] [component2] [...]</literallayout>
+ <literallayout>deb [ options ] uri suite [component1] [component2] [...]</literallayout>
+
+ <para>Alternatively a rfc822 style format is also supported:
+ <literallayout>
+ Types: deb deb-src
+ URIs: http://example.com
+ Suites: stable testing
+ Sections: component1 component2
+ Description: short
+ long long long
+ [option1]: [option1-value]
+
+ Types: deb
+ URIs: http://another.example.com
+ Suites: experimental
+ Sections: component1 component2
+ Enabled: no
+ Description: short
+ long long long
+ [option1]: [option1-value]
+ </literallayout>
+ </para>
<para>The URI for the <literal>deb</literal> type must specify the base of the
Debian distribution, from which APT will find the information it needs.
- <literal>distribution</literal> can specify an exact path, in which case the
- components must be omitted and <literal>distribution</literal> must end with
+ <literal>suite</literal> can specify an exact path, in which case the
+ components must be omitted and <literal>suite</literal> must end with
a slash (<literal>/</literal>). This is useful for the case when only a
particular sub-section of the archive denoted by the URI is of interest.
- If <literal>distribution</literal> does not specify an exact path, at least
+ If <literal>suite</literal> does not specify an exact path, at least
one <literal>component</literal> must be present.</para>
- <para><literal>distribution</literal> may also contain a variable,
+ <para><literal>suite</literal> may also contain a variable,
<literal>$(ARCH)</literal>
which expands to the Debian architecture (such as <literal>amd64</literal> or
<literal>armel</literal>) used on the system. This permits architecture-independent
of interest when specifying an exact path, <literal>APT</literal> will
automatically generate a URI with the current architecture otherwise.</para>
- <para>Since only one distribution can be specified per line it may be necessary
- to have multiple lines for the same URI, if a subset of all available
- distributions or components at that location is desired.
- APT will sort the URI list after it has generated a complete set
- internally, and will collapse multiple references to the same Internet
- host, for instance, into a single connection, so that it does not
- inefficiently establish an FTP connection, close it, do something else,
- and then re-establish a connection to that same host. This feature is
- useful for accessing busy FTP sites with limits on the number of
- simultaneous anonymous users. APT also parallelizes connections to
- different hosts to more effectively deal with sites with low bandwidth.</para>
+ <para>In the traditional style sources.list format since only one
+ distribution can be specified per line it may be necessary to have
+ multiple lines for the same URI, if a subset of all available
+ distributions or components at that location is desired. APT will
+ sort the URI list after it has generated a complete set internally,
+ and will collapse multiple references to the same Internet host,
+ for instance, into a single connection, so that it does not
+ inefficiently establish an FTP connection, close it, do something
+ else, and then re-establish a connection to that same host. This
+ feature is useful for accessing busy FTP sites with limits on the
+ number of simultaneous anonymous users. APT also parallelizes
+ connections to different hosts to more effectively deal with sites
+ with low bandwidth.</para>
<para><literal>options</literal> is always optional and needs to be surrounded by
square brackets. It can consist of multiple settings in the form
<literal><replaceable>setting</replaceable>=<replaceable>value</replaceable></literal>.
Multiple settings are separated by spaces. The following settings are supported by APT
(note however that unsupported settings will be ignored silently):
- <itemizedlist><listitem><para><literal>arch=<replaceable>arch1</replaceable>,<replaceable>arch2</replaceable>,…</literal>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem><para><literal>arch=<replaceable>arch1</replaceable>,<replaceable>arch2</replaceable>,…</literal>
can be used to specify for which architectures information should
be downloaded. If this option is not set all architectures defined by the
<literal>APT::Architectures</literal> option will be downloaded.</para></listitem>
+ <listitem><para><literal>arch+=<replaceable>arch1</replaceable>,<replaceable>arch2</replaceable>,…</literal>
+ and <literal>arch-=<replaceable>arch1</replaceable>,<replaceable>arch2</replaceable>,…</literal>
+ which can be used to add/remove architectures from the set which will be downloaded.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para><literal>trusted=yes</literal> can be set to indicate that packages
from this source are always authenticated even if the <filename>Release</filename> file
is not signed or the signature can't be checked. This disables parts of &apt-secure;
&apt-conf; manual page. Please note that an FTP proxy can be specified
by using the <envar>ftp_proxy</envar> environment variable. It is possible
to specify an HTTP proxy (HTTP proxy servers often understand FTP URLs)
- using this environment variable and <emphasis>ONLY</emphasis> this
+ using this environment variable and <emphasis>only</emphasis> this
environment variable. Proxies using HTTP specified in
the configuration file will be ignored.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
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