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<refsect1><title>Description</title>
<para>The package resource list is used to locate archives of the package
distribution system in use on the system. At this time, this manual page
<refsect1><title>Description</title>
<para>The package resource list is used to locate archives of the package
distribution system in use on the system. At this time, this manual page
This control file is <filename>/etc/apt/sources.list</filename>.</para>
<para>The source list is designed to support any number of active sources and a
This control file is <filename>/etc/apt/sources.list</filename>.</para>
<para>The source list is designed to support any number of active sources and a
File names need to end with
<filename>.list</filename> and may only contain letters (a-z and A-Z),
digits (0-9), underscore (_), hyphen (-) and period (.) characters.
File names need to end with
<filename>.list</filename> and may only contain letters (a-z and A-Z),
digits (0-9), underscore (_), hyphen (-) and period (.) characters.
- Otherwise APT will print a notice that it has ignored a file if the file
- doesn't match a pattern in the <literal>Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently</literal>
+ Otherwise APT will print a notice that it has ignored a file, unless that
+ file matches a pattern in the <literal>Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently</literal>
- <para>The currently recognized URI types are cdrom, file, http, ftp, copy,
- ssh, rsh.
+ <para>The currently recognized URI types are:
<listitem><para>
The file scheme allows an arbitrary directory in the file system to be
considered an archive. This is useful for NFS mounts and local mirrors or
archives.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<listitem><para>
The file scheme allows an arbitrary directory in the file system to be
considered an archive. This is useful for NFS mounts and local mirrors or
archives.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<listitem><para>
The http scheme specifies an HTTP server for the archive. If an environment
variable <envar>http_proxy</envar> is set with the format
<listitem><para>
The http scheme specifies an HTTP server for the archive. If an environment
variable <envar>http_proxy</envar> is set with the format
<listitem><para>
The ftp scheme specifies an FTP server for the archive. APT's FTP behavior
is highly configurable; for more information see the
<listitem><para>
The ftp scheme specifies an FTP server for the archive. APT's FTP behavior
is highly configurable; for more information see the
<listitem><para>
The copy scheme is identical to the file scheme except that packages are
copied into the cache directory instead of used directly at their location.
This is useful for people using a zip disk to copy files around with APT.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<listitem><para>
The copy scheme is identical to the file scheme except that packages are
copied into the cache directory instead of used directly at their location.
This is useful for people using a zip disk to copy files around with APT.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<listitem><para>
The rsh/ssh method invokes rsh/ssh to connect to a remote host
as a given user and access the files. It is a good idea to do prior
<listitem><para>
The rsh/ssh method invokes rsh/ssh to connect to a remote host
as a given user and access the files. It is a good idea to do prior
- follow the nameing scheme <literal>apt-transport-<replaceable>method</replaceable></literal>.
- The APT team e.g. maintains also the <literal>apt-transport-https</literal> package which
+ follow the nameing scheme <package>apt-transport-<replaceable>method</replaceable></package>.
+ The APT team e.g. maintains also the <package>apt-transport-https</package> package which
- methods for using e.g. debtorrent are also available, see <citerefentry>
- <refentrytitle><filename>apt-transport-debtorrent</filename></refentrytitle>
- <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
+ methods for using e.g. debtorrent are also available, see &apt-transport-debtorrent;.