X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/dabb215cb8c4b074d286737da523d8ef14381468..b68ce88357daf362e60d7f8f131041289c8db690:/doc/sources.list.5.xml?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/sources.list.5.xml b/doc/sources.list.5.xml index 5c539798a..4d0c4d502 100644 --- a/doc/sources.list.5.xml +++ b/doc/sources.list.5.xml @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ %aptverbatiment; + +%aptvendor; ]> @@ -18,7 +20,7 @@ &apt-email; &apt-product; - 2012-06-09T00:00:00Z + 2014-01-18T00:00:00Z @@ -74,22 +76,42 @@ code in the same form as the deb type. A deb-src line is required to fetch source indexes. - The format for a sources.list entry using the deb and deb-src types is: - deb [ options ] uri distribution [component1] [component2] [...] + deb [ options ] uri suite [component1] [component2] [...] + + Alternatively a rfc822 style format is also supported: + + Types: deb deb-src + URIs: http://example.com + Suites: stable testing + Sections: component1 component2 + Description: short + long long long + [option1]: [option1-value] + + Types: deb + URIs: http://another.example.com + Suites: experimental + Sections: component1 component2 + Enabled: no + Description: short + long long long + [option1]: [option1-value] + + The URI for the deb type must specify the base of the Debian distribution, from which APT will find the information it needs. - distribution can specify an exact path, in which case the - components must be omitted and distribution must end with + suite can specify an exact path, in which case the + components must be omitted and suite must end with a slash (/). This is useful for the case when only a particular sub-section of the archive denoted by the URI is of interest. - If distribution does not specify an exact path, at least + If suite does not specify an exact path, at least one component must be present. - distribution may also contain a variable, + suite may also contain a variable, $(ARCH) which expands to the Debian architecture (such as amd64 or armel) used on the system. This permits architecture-independent @@ -97,27 +119,33 @@ of interest when specifying an exact path, APT will automatically generate a URI with the current architecture otherwise. - Since only one distribution can be specified per line it may be necessary - to have multiple lines for the same URI, if a subset of all available - distributions or components at that location is desired. - APT will sort the URI list after it has generated a complete set - internally, and will collapse multiple references to the same Internet - host, for instance, into a single connection, so that it does not - inefficiently establish an FTP connection, close it, do something else, - and then re-establish a connection to that same host. This feature is - useful for accessing busy FTP sites with limits on the number of - simultaneous anonymous users. APT also parallelizes connections to - different hosts to more effectively deal with sites with low bandwidth. + In the traditional style sources.list format since only one + distribution can be specified per line it may be necessary to have + multiple lines for the same URI, if a subset of all available + distributions or components at that location is desired. APT will + sort the URI list after it has generated a complete set internally, + and will collapse multiple references to the same Internet host, + for instance, into a single connection, so that it does not + inefficiently establish an FTP connection, close it, do something + else, and then re-establish a connection to that same host. This + feature is useful for accessing busy FTP sites with limits on the + number of 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 surrounded 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 however that unsupported settings will be ignored silently): - arch=arch1,arch2,… + + arch=arch1,arch2,… can be used to specify for which architectures information should be downloaded. If this option is not set all architectures defined by the APT::Architectures option will be downloaded. + arch+=arch1,arch2,… + and arch-=arch1,arch2,… + which can be used to add/remove architectures from the set which will be downloaded. trusted=yes can be set to indicate that packages from this source are always authenticated even if the Release file is not signed or the signature can't be checked. This disables parts of &apt-secure;