support arch:all data e.g. in separate Packages file

[apt.git] / doc / apt-ftparchive.1.xml

diff --git a/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml b/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml
index 0b26241c668c5a4527448db95ead8113304d3b4b..edebb0808593ea9afe62a562b628cd86131b254b 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml
+++ b/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml
@@ -1,13 +1,9 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="no"?>
 <!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
-
-<!ENTITY % aptent SYSTEM "apt.ent">
-%aptent;
-
-<!ENTITY % aptverbatiment SYSTEM "apt-verbatim.ent">
-%aptverbatiment;
-
+<!ENTITY % aptent SYSTEM "apt.ent"> %aptent;
+<!ENTITY % aptverbatiment SYSTEM "apt-verbatim.ent"> %aptverbatiment;
+<!ENTITY % aptvendor SYSTEM "apt-vendor.ent"> %aptvendor;
 ]>
 
 <refentry>
@@ -18,7 +14,7 @@
    &apt-email;
    &apt-product;
    <!-- The last update date -->
-   <date>2009-08-17T00:00:00Z</date>
+   <date>2012-06-09T00:00:00Z</date>
  </refentryinfo>
  
  <refmeta>
@@ -98,8 +94,8 @@
      as well as <filename>Release</filename> and <filename>md5sum.txt</filename> files by default
      (<literal>APT::FTPArchive::Release::Default-Patterns</literal>). Additional filename patterns
      can be added by listing them in <literal>APT::FTPArchive::Release::Patterns</literal>.
-     It then writes to stdout a <filename>Release</filename> file containing an MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 digest
-     for each file.</para>
+     It then writes to stdout a <filename>Release</filename> file containing (by default) an MD5,
+     SHA1, SHA256 and SHA512 digest for each file.</para>
      <para>
      Values for the additional metadata fields in the Release file are
      taken from the corresponding variables under
@@ -305,7 +301,7 @@
       <varlistentry><term><option>Contents</option></term>
       <listitem><para>
       Sets the output Contents file. Defaults to
-      <filename>$(DIST)/Contents-$(ARCH)</filename>. If this setting causes multiple 
+      <filename>$(DIST)/$(SECTION)/Contents-$(ARCH)</filename>. If this setting causes multiple 
       Packages files to map onto a single Contents file (as is the default) 
       then <command>apt-ftparchive</command> will integrate those package files 
       together automatically.</para></listitem>
@@ -372,9 +368,13 @@ for i in Sections do
       
       <varlistentry><term><option>Architectures</option></term>
       <listitem><para>
-      This is a space separated list of all the 
-      architectures that appear under search section. The special architecture 
-      'source' is used to indicate that this tree has a source archive.</para></listitem>
+      This is a space separated list of all the architectures that appear under
+      search section. The special architecture 'source' is used to indicate
+      that this tree has a source archive.  The architecture 'all' signals that
+      architecture specific files like <filename>Packages</filename> should not
+      include information about architecture <literal>all</literal> packages in
+      all files as they will be available in a dedicated file.
+      </para></listitem>
       </varlistentry>
 
       <varlistentry><term><option>LongDescription</option></term>
@@ -505,7 +505,11 @@ for i in Sections do
    &apt-cmdblurb;
    
    <variablelist>
-     <varlistentry><term><option>--md5</option></term><term><option>--sha1</option></term><term><option>--sha256</option></term>
+      <varlistentry>
+        <term><option>--md5</option></term>
+        <term><option>--sha1</option></term>
+        <term><option>--sha256</option></term>
+        <term><option>--sha512</option></term>
      <listitem><para>
      Generate the given checksum. These options default to on, when turned off the generated
      index files will not have the checksum fields where possible.
@@ -513,7 +517,7 @@ for i in Sections do
      <literal>APT::FTPArchive::<replaceable>Index</replaceable>::<replaceable>Checksum</replaceable></literal> where
      <literal><replaceable>Index</replaceable></literal> can be <literal>Packages</literal>, <literal>Sources</literal> or
      <literal>Release</literal> and <literal><replaceable>Checksum</replaceable></literal> can be <literal>MD5</literal>,
-     <literal>SHA1</literal> or <literal>SHA256</literal>.</para></listitem>
+     <literal>SHA1</literal>, <literal>SHA256</literal> or <literal>SHA512</literal>.</para></listitem>
      </varlistentry>
 
      <varlistentry><term><option>-d</option></term><term><option>--db</option></term>
@@ -589,7 +593,7 @@ for i in Sections do
      </varlistentry>
 
      &apt-commonoptions;
-     
+
    </variablelist>
  </refsect1>