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diff --git a/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml b/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml
index 7131303ae..eb61eae51 100644
--- a/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml
+++ b/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
&apt-email;
&apt-product;
- 29 February 2004
+ 17 August 2009
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
-
+ packagespathoverridepathprefix
@@ -158,7 +158,7 @@
The Dir section defines the standard directories needed to
locate the files required during the generation process. These
- directories are prepended to certain relative paths defined in later
+ directories are prepended certain relative paths defined in later
sections to produce a complete an absolute path.ArchiveDir
@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@
Sources
- Sets the output Packages file. Defaults to
+ Sets the output Sources file. Defaults to
$(DIST)/$(SECTION)/source/Sources
@@ -350,11 +350,11 @@
When processing a Tree section apt-ftparchive
performs an operation similar to:
-
+
for i in Sections do
for j in Architectures do
Generate for DIST=scope SECTION=i ARCH=j
-
+
Sections
@@ -543,7 +543,28 @@ for i in Sections do
Make the caching databases read only.
Configuration Item: APT::FTPArchive::ReadOnlyDB.
-
+
+
+
+ &apt-ftparchive; caches as much as possible of metadata in it is cachedb. If packages
+ are recompiled and/or republished with the same version again, this will lead to problems
+ as the now outdated cached metadata like size and checksums will be used. With this option
+ enabled this will no longer happen as it will be checked if the file was changed.
+ Note that this option is set to "false" by default as it is not recommend
+ to upload multiply versions/builds of a package with the same versionnumber, so in theory
+ nobody will have these problems and therefore all these extra checks are useless.
+
+
+
+
+
+ This configuration option defaults to "true" and should only be set to
+ "false" if the Archive generated with &apt-ftparchive; also provides
+ Translation files. Note that it is currently not possible to create these
+ files with apt-ftparchive.
+
+
+
&apt-commonoptions;