- add --arch option for apt-ftparchive packages and contents commands

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

diff --git a/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml b/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml
index c56ff235a27cd55657e547936f5648b6802c204f..f88dbe63127fa5e35a6ef4cb9d9aa5ab942debca 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml
+++ b/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
       <arg><option>--delink</option></arg>
       <arg><option>--readonly</option></arg>
       <arg><option>--contents</option></arg>
+      <arg><option>--arch <replaceable>architecture</replaceable></option></arg>
       <arg><option>-o <replaceable>config</replaceable>=<replaceable>string</replaceable></option></arg>
       <arg><option>-c=<replaceable>file</replaceable></option></arg>      
       <group choice="req">
@@ -542,7 +543,26 @@ for i in Sections do
      <listitem><para>
      Make the caching databases read only. 
      Configuration Item: <literal>APT::FTPArchive::ReadOnlyDB</literal>.</para></listitem>
-     </varlistentry>   
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry><term><option>-a</option></term><term><option>--arch</option></term>
+     <listitem><para>Accept in the <literal>packages</literal> and <literal>contents</literal>
+     commands only package files matching <literal>*_arch.deb</literal> or
+     <literal>*_all.deb</literal> instead of all package files in the given path.
+     Configuration Item: <literal>APT::FTPArchive::Architecture</literal>.</para></listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
+
+     <varlistentry><term><option>APT::FTPArchive::AlwaysStat</option></term>
+     <listitem><para>
+     &apt-ftparchive; caches as much as possible of metadata in a cachedb. If packages
+     are recompiled and/or republished with the same version again, this will lead to problems
+     as the now outdated cached metadata like size and checksums will be used. With this option
+     enabled this will no longer happen as it will be checked if the file was changed.
+     Note that this option is set to "<literal>false</literal>" by default as it is not recommend
+     to upload multiply versions/builds of a package with the same versionnumber, so in theory
+     nobody will have these problems and therefore all these extra checks are useless.
+     </para></listitem>
+     </varlistentry>
 
      <varlistentry><term><option>APT::FTPArchive::LongDescription</option></term>
      <listitem><para>