X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/7230ad48a5c7766281c824c7373ecc8900e25995..4011e1137955decbb988e0098ba9f4fdbe6f2e4d:/doc/sources.list.5.xml diff --git a/doc/sources.list.5.xml b/doc/sources.list.5.xml index 9762005b0..379112c83 100644 --- a/doc/sources.list.5.xml +++ b/doc/sources.list.5.xml @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ sources.list 5 + APT @@ -48,9 +49,12 @@ sources.list.d The /etc/apt/sources.list.d directory provides - a way to add sources.list entries in seperate files that end with - .list. The format is the same as for the regular - sources.list file. + 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 @@ -115,7 +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 @@ -163,12 +168,24 @@ 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. + + more recongnizable 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. maintain also the apt-transport-https package which + provides access methods for https-URIs with features similiar to the http method, but other + methods for using e.g. debtorrent are also available, see + apt-transport-debtorrent + 1. + + @@ -204,7 +221,7 @@ 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