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diff --git a/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml b/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml
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--- a/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml
+++ b/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml
@@ -33,29 +33,8 @@
Utility to generate index files
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- apt-ftparchive
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-
-
- packagespathoverridepathprefix
- sourcespathoverridepathprefix
- contents path
- release path
- generate config-filesection
- clean config-file
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-
+ &synopsis-command-apt-ftparchive;
+
Descriptionapt-ftparchive is the command line tool that generates the index
files that APT uses to access a distribution source. The index files should
@@ -113,10 +92,13 @@
release
The release command generates a Release file from a
- directory tree. It recursively searches the given directory for
- Packages, Packages.gz, Packages.bz2, Sources, Sources.gz,
- Sources.bz2, Release and md5sum.txt files. It then writes to
- stdout a Release file containing an MD5 digest and SHA1 digest
+ directory tree. It recursively searches the given directory for uncompressed
+ Packages and Sources files and the ones
+ compressed with gzip, bzip2 or lzma
+ as well as Release and md5sum.txt files by default
+ (APT::FTPArchive::Release::Default-Patterns). Additional filename patterns
+ can be added by listing them in APT::FTPArchive::Release::Patterns.
+ It then writes to stdout a Release file containing a MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 digest
for each file.
Values for the additional metadata fields in the Release file are
@@ -523,11 +505,15 @@ for i in Sections do
&apt-cmdblurb;
-
+ , ,
- Generate MD5 sums. This defaults to on, when turned off the generated
- index files will not have MD5Sum fields where possible.
- Configuration Item: APT::FTPArchive::MD5
+ Generate the given checksum. These options default to on, when turned off the generated
+ index files will not have the checksum fields where possible.
+ Configuration Items: APT::FTPArchive::Checksum and
+ APT::FTPArchive::Index::Checksum where
+ Index can be Packages, Sources or
+ Release and Checksum can be MD5,
+ SHA1 or SHA256.