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-<!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;
]>
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&apt-email;
&apt-product;
<!-- The last update date -->
- <date>2009-08-17T00:00:00Z</date>
+ <date>2012-06-09T00:00:00Z</date>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
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
<varlistentry><term><option>Packages::Compress</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Sets the default compression schemes to use
- for the Package index files. It is a string that contains a space
+ for the package index files. It is a string that contains a space
separated list of at least one of: '.' (no compression), 'gzip' and
'bzip2'. The default for all compression schemes is '. gzip'.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<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>
<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>
&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.
<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>
</varlistentry>
&apt-commonoptions;
-
+
</variablelist>
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