X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/7d1d3984806f1a9b33638d11d84d7febbacfc91e..16d7341fce96b089aa2a1c241acd0a72209bcd7f:/doc/sources.list.5.xml
diff --git a/doc/sources.list.5.xml b/doc/sources.list.5.xml
index e47418b27..c758be61f 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
@@ -163,8 +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.