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authorSteve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>2012-06-11 15:13:24 -0700
committerSteve Langasek <steve.langasek@canonical.com>2012-06-11 15:13:24 -0700
commit825098c2740b2d5ebea0c16c43685f55da201315 (patch)
treeb3a43f792cca021a79f541a9454e0223e4dca9cb /doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml
parent310ed3c13d5cfd2a3c46741539f652d69bda5d30 (diff)
parente08c5854bb9b5f352b0856533f95c12e858728ca (diff)
Merge version 0.9.6 from Debian
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diff --git a/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml b/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml
index 84b5f4135..91fdfe1e0 100644
--- a/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml
+++ b/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
&apt-email;
&apt-product;
<!-- The last update date -->
- <date>2009-08-17T00:00:00Z</date>
+ <date>2012-06-09T00:00:00Z</date>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
@@ -93,12 +93,12 @@
<listitem><para>
The <literal>release</literal> command generates a Release file from a
directory tree. It recursively searches the given directory for uncompressed
- <filename>Packages</filename> and <filename>Sources</filename> files and the ones
+ <filename>Packages</filename> and <filename>Sources</filename> files and ones
compressed with <command>gzip</command>, <command>bzip2</command> or <command>lzma</command>
as well as <filename>Release</filename> and <filename>md5sum.txt</filename> files by default
(<literal>APT::FTPArchive::Release::Default-Patterns</literal>). Additional filename patterns
can be added by listing them in <literal>APT::FTPArchive::Release::Patterns</literal>.
- It then writes to stdout a Release file containing a MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 digest
+ It then writes to stdout a <filename>Release</filename> file containing an MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 digest
for each file.</para>
<para>
Values for the additional metadata fields in the Release file are
@@ -139,7 +139,7 @@
tree manner. This only effects how the scope tag is handled.</para>
<para>
- The generate configuration has 4 separate sections, each described below.</para>
+ The generate configuration has four separate sections, each described below.</para>
<refsect2><title><literal>Dir</literal> Section</title>
<para>
@@ -162,7 +162,7 @@
<varlistentry><term><option>CacheDir</option></term>
<listitem><para>
- Specifies the location of the cache files</para></listitem>
+ Specifies the location of the cache files.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>FileListDir</option></term>
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@
<varlistentry><term><option>Packages::Compress</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Sets the default compression schemes to use
- for the Package index files. It is a string that contains a space
+ for the package index files. It is a string that contains a space
separated list of at least one of: '.' (no compression), 'gzip' and
'bzip2'. The default for all compression schemes is '. gzip'.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -233,8 +233,8 @@
<varlistentry><term><option>LongDescription</option></term>
<listitem><para>
- Sets if long descriptions should be included in the Packages file or split
- out into a master Translation-en file.</para></listitem>
+ Specifies whether long descriptions should be included in the <filename>Packages</filename> file or split
+ out into a master <filename>Translation-en</filename> file.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect2>
@@ -290,7 +290,7 @@
<varlistentry><term><option>Translation</option></term>
<listitem><para>
- Set the output Translation-en master file with the long descriptions if they
+ Sets the output Translation-en master file with the long descriptions if they
should be not included in the Packages file. Defaults to
<filename>$(DIST)/$(SECTION)/i18n/Translation-en</filename></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -305,8 +305,8 @@
<varlistentry><term><option>Contents</option></term>
<listitem><para>
Sets the output Contents file. Defaults to
- <filename>$(DIST)/Contents-$(ARCH)</filename>. If this setting causes multiple
- Packages files to map onto a single Contents file (such as the default)
+ <filename>$(DIST)/$(SECTION)/Contents-$(ARCH)</filename>. If this setting causes multiple
+ Packages files to map onto a single Contents file (as is the default)
then <command>apt-ftparchive</command> will integrate those package files
together automatically.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -352,7 +352,7 @@
Typically this is a setting such as <filename>dists/&stable-codename;</filename>.</para>
<para>
All of the settings defined in the <literal>TreeDefault</literal> section can be
- use in a <literal>Tree</literal> section as well as three new variables.</para>
+ used in a <literal>Tree</literal> section as well as three new variables.</para>
<para>
When processing a <literal>Tree</literal> section <command>apt-ftparchive</command>
performs an operation similar to:
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ for i in Sections do
<varlistentry><term><option>Sections</option></term>
<listitem><para>
This is a space separated list of sections which appear
- under the distribution, typically this is something like
+ under the distribution; typically this is something like
<literal>main contrib non-free</literal></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
@@ -379,8 +379,8 @@ for i in Sections do
<varlistentry><term><option>LongDescription</option></term>
<listitem><para>
- Sets if long descriptions should be included in the Packages file or split
- out into a master Translation-en file.</para></listitem>
+ Specifies whether long descriptions should be included in the <filename>Packages</filename> file or split
+ out into a master <filename>Translation-en</filename> file.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>BinOverride</option></term>
@@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ for i in Sections do
<varlistentry><term><option>Contents</option></term>
<listitem><para>
- Sets the Contents file output. (optional)</para></listitem>
+ Sets the Contents file output (optional).</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>BinOverride</option></term>
@@ -472,8 +472,8 @@ for i in Sections do
<refsect1><title>The Binary Override File</title>
<para>The binary override file is fully compatible with &dpkg-scanpackages;. It
- contains 4 fields separated by spaces. The first field is the package name,
- the second is the priority to force that package to, the third is the
+ contains four fields separated by spaces. The first field is the package name,
+ the second is the priority to force that package to, the third is
the section to force that package to and the final field is the maintainer
permutation field.</para>
<para>The general form of the maintainer field is:
@@ -490,14 +490,14 @@ for i in Sections do
<refsect1><title>The Source Override File</title>
<para>
The source override file is fully compatible with &dpkg-scansources;. It
- contains 2 fields separated by spaces. The first fields is the source
+ contains two fields separated by spaces. The first field is the source
package name, the second is the section to assign it.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1><title>The Extra Override File</title>
<para>
The extra override file allows any arbitrary tag to be added or replaced
- in the output. It has 3 columns, the first is the package, the second is
+ in the output. It has three columns, the first is the package, the second is
the tag and the remainder of the line is the new value.</para>
</refsect1>