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authorDavid Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>2018-02-27 18:05:10 +0100
committerDavid Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>2018-04-07 14:35:40 +0200
commit57a00c50b14a49ed91816e3f4467e0f2e57ee772 (patch)
tree70d88ab502a32bb16534104d8c5dd51f3508ff58
parentc6c6c8fe9343bf515fbf2bc01a1296bc3b75da25 (diff)
mention mirror method in sources.list
Closes: 679580
-rw-r--r--doc/apt-verbatim.ent6
-rw-r--r--doc/sources.list.5.xml11
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt-verbatim.ent b/doc/apt-verbatim.ent
index d7817cb79..a8aa0bf5e 100644
--- a/doc/apt-verbatim.ent
+++ b/doc/apt-verbatim.ent
@@ -93,6 +93,12 @@
</citerefentry>"
>
+<!ENTITY apt-transport-mirror "<citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle><command>apt-transport-mirror</command></refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry>"
+>
+
<!ENTITY sources-list "<citerefentry>
<refentrytitle><filename>sources.list</filename></refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
diff --git a/doc/sources.list.5.xml b/doc/sources.list.5.xml
index 75b5d94b9..e55c5b31e 100644
--- a/doc/sources.list.5.xml
+++ b/doc/sources.list.5.xml
@@ -409,6 +409,17 @@ deb-src [ option1=value1 option2=value2 ] uri suite [component1] [component2] [.
alternative.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+ <varlistentry><term><command>mirror</command>, <command>mirror+<replaceable>scheme</replaceable></command> (&apt-transport-mirror;)</term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ The mirror scheme specifies the location of a mirrorlist. By default the
+ scheme used for the location is <literal>http</literal>, but any other
+ scheme can be used via <command>mirror+<replaceable>scheme</replaceable></command>.
+ The mirrorlist itself can contain many different URIs for mirrors the APT client
+ can transparently pick, choose and fallback between intended to help both
+ with distributing the load over the available mirrors and ensuring that
+ clients can acquire data even if some configured mirrors are not available.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><command>file</command></term>
<listitem><para>