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diff --git a/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml b/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml
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--- a/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml
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@@ -544,6 +544,18 @@ for i in Sections do
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+ as the now outdated cached metadata like size and checksums will be used.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