summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/doc/apt-config.8.xml
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorMichael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>2012-05-21 11:29:05 +0200
committerMichael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>2012-05-21 11:29:05 +0200
commit6c1f5d2c3c8df164e78dda8f24d28667634403e1 (patch)
treed711a52cf5a92a13b87f248307f5521846a7dbcf /doc/apt-config.8.xml
parentaa2218b25cb29e8c0677f0f3ede098583c7ae49f (diff)
parent0baf849d81814fce59d86eecccbe624c8aaf0456 (diff)
merged from David, uncommited the previous i18n commit first as its part of the merge from David already but for some reason bzr is confused and gives a gazillion of conflicts in doc/po/de.po without the uncommit first
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/apt-config.8.xml')
-rw-r--r--doc/apt-config.8.xml13
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt-config.8.xml b/doc/apt-config.8.xml
index 94aeec059..a8fb897ef 100644
--- a/doc/apt-config.8.xml
+++ b/doc/apt-config.8.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
&apt-email;
&apt-product;
<!-- The last update date -->
- <date>29 February 2004</date>
+ <date>2012-05-11T00:00:00Z</date>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
</para>
<variablelist>
- <varlistentry><term>shell</term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>shell</option></term>
<listitem><para>
shell is used to access the configuration information from a shell
script. It is given pairs of arguments, the first being a shell
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ eval $RES
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
- <varlistentry><term>dump</term>
+ <varlistentry><term><option>dump</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Just show the contents of the configuration space.</para>
</listitem>
@@ -93,9 +93,10 @@ eval $RES
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--format '<replaceable>&percnt;f &#x0022;&percnt;v&#x0022;;&percnt;n</replaceable>'</option></term>
- <listitem><para>Defines the output of each config option. &percnt;t will be replaced with the tagname,
- &percnt;f with the complete tagname and &percnt;v with the value of the option.
- Use uppercase letters and the respective values will be quoted. Additionally
+ <listitem><para>Defines the output of each config option. &percnt;t will be replaced with the name of the option,
+ &percnt;f with the complete optionname and &percnt;v with the value of the option.
+ Use uppercase letters and special characters in the value will be encoded to ensure that
+ it can e.g. be savely used in a quoted-string as defined by RFC822. Additionally
&percnt;n will be replaced by a newline, &percnt;N by a tab. A &percnt; can be
printed by using &percnt;&percnt;.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>