X-Git-Url: https://git.saurik.com/apt.git/blobdiff_plain/e7aea3985734af1702fde6e2b0af90b992425334..1afd369d00f2f9272462ffc6c6e24f293a81459e:/doc/files.sgml diff --git a/doc/files.sgml b/doc/files.sgml index 108e73670..a52efc756 100644 --- a/doc/files.sgml +++ b/doc/files.sgml @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
-For more details, on Debian GNU/Linux systems, see the file +For more details, on Debian systems, see the file /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL for the full license. @@ -118,82 +118,10 @@ fastest source listed first. The format of each line is:
The first item, type, indicates the format for the remainder
of the line. It is designed to indicate the structure of the distribution
-the line is talking about. Currently the only defined value is deb
-which indicates a standard debian archive with a dists dir.
-
-
- The deb type is to be a typical two level debian distributions,
- dist/distribution/component. Typically distribution
- is one of stable, unstable or testing while component is one of main,
- contrib, non-free or non-us. The format for the deb line is as follows:
-
-
- deb uri distribution component
- [component ...]
-
-
- uri for the deb type must specify the base of the
- debian distribution. APT will automatically generate the proper longer
- URIs to get the information it needs. distribution can specify
- an exact path, in this case the components must be omitted and
- distribution must end in a slash.
-
-
- Since only one distribution can be specified per deb line it may be
- necessary to list a number of deb lines for the same URI. APT will
- sort the URI list after it has generated a complete set to allow
- connection reuse. It is important to order things in the sourcelist
- from most preferred to least preferred (fastest to slowest).
-
-URIs in the source list support a large number of access schemes which
-are listed in the sources.list manpage and can be further extended by
-transport binaries placed in /usr/lib/apt/methods. The most important
-builtin schemes are:
-
-
@@ -235,7 +163,7 @@ The extended_states file serves the same purpose as the normal dpkg status file
This includes currently only the autoflag but is open to store more
unique data that come up over time. It duplicates nothing from the normal
dpkg status file. Please see other APT documentation for a discussion
-of the exact internal behaviour of these fields. The Package and the
+of the exact internal behavior of these fields. The Package and the
Architecture field are placed directly before the new fields to indicate
which package they apply to. The new fields are as follows: