X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/16d7341fce96b089aa2a1c241acd0a72209bcd7f..851d681d0af7f3346d77738e4708b21ed6e2cc98:/doc/sources.list.5.xml diff --git a/doc/sources.list.5.xml b/doc/sources.list.5.xml index c758be61f..fab125b4e 100644 --- a/doc/sources.list.5.xml +++ b/doc/sources.list.5.xml @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ %aptent; + +%aptverbatiment; + ]> @@ -34,13 +37,13 @@ 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 documents only the packaging system used by the Debian GNU/Linux system. - This control file is located in /etc/apt/sources.list + This control file is /etc/apt/sources.list. The source list is designed to support any number of active sources and a variety of source media. The file lists one source per line, with the most preferred source listed first. The format of each line is: type uri args The first item, type - determines the format for args uri is + determines the format for args. uri is a Universal Resource Identifier (URI), which is a superset of the more specific and well-known Universal Resource Locator, or URL. The rest of the line can be marked as a comment @@ -54,32 +57,34 @@ File names need to end with .list and may only contain letters (a-z and A-Z), digits (0-9), underscore (_), hyphen (-) and period (.) characters. - Otherwise they will be silently ignored. + Otherwise APT will print a notice that it has ignored a file if the file + doesn't match a pattern in the Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently + configuration list - in this case it will be silently ignored. The deb and deb-src types The deb type describes a typical two-level Debian archive, distribution/component. Typically, - distribution is generally one of - stable unstable or - testing while component is one of main - contrib non-free or - non-us The + distribution is generally an archivename like + stable or testing or a codename like + &stable-codename; or &testing-codename; + while component is one of main contrib or + non-free. The deb-src type describes a debian distribution's source code in the same form as the deb type. A deb-src line is required to fetch source indexes. The format for a sources.list entry using the - deb and deb-src types are: + deb and deb-src types is: - deb uri distribution [component1] [component2] [...] + deb [ options ] uri distribution [component1] [component2] [...] The URI for the deb type must specify the base of the Debian distribution, from which APT will find the information it needs. distribution can specify an exact path, in which case the components must be omitted and distribution must end with - a slash (/). This is useful for when only a particular sub-section of the + a slash (/). This is useful for when the case only a particular sub-section of the archive denoted by the URI is of interest. If distribution does not specify an exact path, at least one component must be present. @@ -104,6 +109,17 @@ simultaneous anonymous users. APT also parallelizes connections to different hosts to more effectively deal with sites with low bandwidth. + options is always optional and needs to be surounded by + square brackets. It can consist of multiple settings in the form + setting=value. + Multiple settings are separated by spaces. The following settings are supported by APT, + note through that unsupported settings will be ignored silently: + arch=arch1,arch2,… + can be used to specify for which architectures packages information should + be downloaded. If this option is not set all architectures defined by the + APT::Architectures option will be downloaded. + + It is important to list sources in order of preference, with the most preferred source listed first. Typically this will result in sorting by speed from fastest to slowest (CD-ROM followed by hosts on a local @@ -111,8 +127,8 @@ Some examples: -deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free -deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/stable-updates/ +deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian &stable-codename; main contrib non-free +deb http://security.debian.org/ &stable-codename;/updates main contrib non-free @@ -143,7 +159,7 @@ deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/stable-updates/ http://server:port/, the proxy server specified in http_proxy will be used. Users of authenticated HTTP/1.1 proxies may use a string of the format - http://user:pass@server:port/ + http://user:pass@server:port/. Note that this is an insecure method of authentication. @@ -174,6 +190,18 @@ deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/stable-updates/ dd commands to perform the file transfers from the remote. + + more recognizable URI types + + APT can be extended with more methods shipped in other optional packages which should + follow the nameing scheme apt-transport-method. + The APT team e.g. maintains also the apt-transport-https package which + provides access methods for https-URIs with features similar to the http method, but other + methods for using e.g. debtorrent are also available, see + apt-transport-debtorrent + 1. + + @@ -189,32 +217,33 @@ deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/stable-updates/ Source line for the above deb-src file:/home/jason/debian unstable main contrib non-free + The first line gets package information for the architectures in APT::Architectures + while the second always retrieves amd64 and armel. + deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian &stable-codename; main +deb [ arch=amd64,armel ] http://ftp.debian.org/debian &stable-codename; main + Uses HTTP to access the archive at archive.debian.org, and uses only the hamm/main area. deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive hamm main Uses FTP to access the archive at ftp.debian.org, under the debian - directory, and uses only the stable/contrib area. - deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable contrib + directory, and uses only the &stable-codename;/contrib area. + deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian &stable-codename; contrib Uses FTP to access the archive at ftp.debian.org, under the debian directory, and uses only the unstable/contrib area. If this line appears as - well as the one in the previous example in sources.list. + well as the one in the previous example in sources.list a single FTP session will be used for both resource lines. deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable contrib - Uses HTTP to access the archive at nonus.debian.org, under the - debian-non-US directory. - deb http://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free - - Uses HTTP to access the archive at nonus.debian.org, under the - debian-non-US directory, and uses only files found under - unstable/binary-i386 on i386 machines, - unstable/binary-m68k on m68k, and so - forth for other supported architectures. [Note this example only - illustrates how to use the substitution variable; non-us is no longer - structured like this] - deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/binary-$(ARCH)/ + Uses HTTP to access the archive at ftp.tlh.debian.org, under the + universe directory, and uses only files found under + unstable/binary-i386 on i386 machines, + unstable/binary-amd64 on amd64, and so + forth for other supported architectures. [Note this example only + illustrates how to use the substitution variable; official debian + archives are not structured like this] + deb http://ftp.tlh.debian.org/universe unstable/binary-$(ARCH)/