X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/24f6490f4ba3572069619d88e053db5cb07e846c..b98f40fadef0ee5419e2315d82110869135e410f:/doc/sources.list.5.xml diff --git a/doc/sources.list.5.xml b/doc/sources.list.5.xml index 5248a7ebb..c758be61f 100644 --- a/doc/sources.list.5.xml +++ b/doc/sources.list.5.xml @@ -8,11 +8,20 @@ ]> - &apt-docinfo; + + + &apt-author.jgunthorpe; + &apt-author.team; + &apt-email; + &apt-product; + + 29 February 2004 + sources.list 5 + APT @@ -38,6 +47,16 @@ by using a #. + sources.list.d + The /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory provides + a way to add sources.list entries in separate files. + The format is the same as for the regular sources.list file. + 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. + + The deb and deb-src types The deb type describes a typical two-level Debian archive, distribution/component. Typically, @@ -100,7 +119,8 @@ deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/stable-updates/ URI specification - The currently recognized URI types are cdrom, file, http, and ftp. + The currently recognized URI types are cdrom, file, http, ftp, copy, + ssh, rsh. file @@ -148,8 +168,8 @@ deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/stable-updates/ rshssh The rsh/ssh method invokes rsh/ssh to connect to a remote host - as a given user and access the files. No password authentication is - possible, prior arrangements with RSA keys or rhosts must have been made. + as a given user and access the files. It is a good idea to do prior + arrangements with RSA keys or rhosts. Access to files on the remote uses standard find and dd commands to perform the file transfers from the remote. @@ -189,7 +209,7 @@ deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/stable-updates/ Uses HTTP to access the archive at nonus.debian.org, under the debian-non-US directory, and uses only files found under - unstable/binary-i3866 on i386 machines, + 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 @@ -199,13 +219,11 @@ deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/stable-updates/ See Also - - &apt-cache; &apt-conf; + &apt-cache; &apt-conf; &manbugs; - &manauthor;