X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/7230ad48a5c7766281c824c7373ecc8900e25995..ecd414ef61a325e8596e6a541696e350cb956753:/doc/sources.list.5.xml diff --git a/doc/sources.list.5.xml b/doc/sources.list.5.xml index 9762005b0..b875086ef 100644 --- a/doc/sources.list.5.xml +++ b/doc/sources.list.5.xml @@ -48,9 +48,12 @@ 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 +118,8 @@ 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 @@ -163,8 +167,8 @@ 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. @@ -204,7 +208,7 @@ 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