X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/c755c38a8342177f1375a9dab3957fc48cedbb2b..851d681d0af7f3346d77738e4708b21ed6e2cc98:/doc/sources.list.5.xml diff --git a/doc/sources.list.5.xml b/doc/sources.list.5.xml index 0f788aca1..fab125b4e 100644 --- a/doc/sources.list.5.xml +++ b/doc/sources.list.5.xml @@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ %aptent; + +%aptverbatiment; + ]> @@ -54,17 +57,19 @@ 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. + Otherwise APT will print a notice that it has ignored a file if the file + doesn't match a pattern in the Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently + configuration list - in this case it will be silently ignored. The deb and deb-src types The deb type describes a typical two-level Debian archive, distribution/component. Typically, - distribution is generally one of - stable unstable or - testing while component is one of main - contrib non-free or - non-us. The + distribution is generally an archivename like + stable or testing or a codename like + &stable-codename; or &testing-codename; + while component is one of main contrib or + non-free. The deb-src type describes a debian distribution's source code in the same form as the deb type. A deb-src line is required to fetch source indexes. @@ -73,7 +78,7 @@ The format for a sources.list entry using the deb and deb-src types is: - deb uri distribution [component1] [component2] [...] + deb [ options ] uri distribution [component1] [component2] [...] The URI for the deb type must specify the base of the Debian distribution, from which APT will find the information it needs. @@ -104,6 +109,17 @@ simultaneous anonymous users. APT also parallelizes connections to different hosts to more effectively deal with sites with low bandwidth. + options is always optional and needs to be surounded by + square brackets. It can consist of multiple settings in the form + setting=value. + Multiple settings are separated by spaces. The following settings are supported by APT, + note through that unsupported settings will be ignored silently: + arch=arch1,arch2,… + can be used to specify for which architectures packages information should + be downloaded. If this option is not set all architectures defined by the + APT::Architectures option will be downloaded. + + It is important to list sources in order of preference, with the most preferred source listed first. Typically this will result in sorting by speed from fastest to slowest (CD-ROM followed by hosts on a local @@ -111,8 +127,8 @@ Some examples: -deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free -deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/stable-updates/ +deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian &stable-codename; main contrib non-free +deb http://security.debian.org/ &stable-codename;/updates main contrib non-free @@ -175,12 +191,12 @@ deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/stable-updates/ commands to perform the file transfers from the remote. - more recongnizable URI types + more recognizable 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 + The APT team e.g. maintains also the apt-transport-https package which + provides access methods for https-URIs with features similar to the http method, but other methods for using e.g. debtorrent are also available, see apt-transport-debtorrent 1. @@ -201,13 +217,18 @@ deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/stable-updates/ Source line for the above deb-src file:/home/jason/debian unstable main contrib non-free + The first line gets package information for the architectures in APT::Architectures + while the second always retrieves amd64 and armel. + deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian &stable-codename; main +deb [ arch=amd64,armel ] http://ftp.debian.org/debian &stable-codename; main + Uses HTTP to access the archive at archive.debian.org, and uses only the hamm/main area. deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive hamm main Uses FTP to access the archive at ftp.debian.org, under the debian - directory, and uses only the stable/contrib area. - deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable contrib + directory, and uses only the &stable-codename;/contrib area. + deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian &stable-codename; contrib Uses FTP to access the archive at ftp.debian.org, under the debian directory, and uses only the unstable/contrib area. If this line appears as @@ -215,18 +236,14 @@ deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/stable-updates/ a single FTP session will be used for both resource lines. deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable contrib - Uses HTTP to access the archive at nonus.debian.org, under the - debian-non-US directory. - deb http://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free - - Uses HTTP to access the archive at nonus.debian.org, under the - debian-non-US directory, and uses only files found under - 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 - structured like this] - deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/binary-$(ARCH)/ + Uses HTTP to access the archive at ftp.tlh.debian.org, under the + universe directory, and uses only files found under + unstable/binary-i386 on i386 machines, + unstable/binary-amd64 on amd64, and so + forth for other supported architectures. [Note this example only + illustrates how to use the substitution variable; official debian + archives are not structured like this] + deb http://ftp.tlh.debian.org/universe unstable/binary-$(ARCH)/