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authorIshan Jayawardena <udeshike@gmail.com>2011-07-16 14:41:53 +0530
committerIshan Jayawardena <udeshike@gmail.com>2011-07-16 14:41:53 +0530
commit8a8ea4baa11f07e1de4cf190f82dbd79ff1affa5 (patch)
treef8710b0994c439f46e75c8f28af0f6b8251f380c /doc/apt-key.8.xml
parent3efe86af099d5a5d05e2e61a571da864676834c7 (diff)
parent0df8c3dccbda739af6e20999fb208ada0619ad80 (diff)
fixed indentation issues
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diff --git a/doc/apt-key.8.xml b/doc/apt-key.8.xml
index 9bfab84b6..f17f0c45e 100644
--- a/doc/apt-key.8.xml
+++ b/doc/apt-key.8.xml
@@ -128,9 +128,10 @@
<listitem>
<para>
- Update the local keyring with the keyring of Debian archive
- keys and removes from the keyring the archive keys which are no
- longer valid.
+ Update the local keyring with the archive keyring and remove from
+ the local keyring the archive keys which are no longer valid.
+ The archive keyring is shipped in the <literal>archive-keyring</literal> package of your
+ distribution, e.g. the <literal>debian-archive-keyring</literal> package in Debian.
</para>
@@ -141,12 +142,14 @@
<listitem>
<para>
- Update the local keyring with the keys of a key server
- and removes from the keyring the archive keys which are no
- longer valid. This requires an installed wget and an APT
- build configured to have a server to fetch from. APT in
- Debian does not support this command, but Ubuntu's APT
- does.
+ Work similar to the <command>update</command> command above, but get the
+ archive keyring from an URI instead and validate it against a master key.
+
+ This requires an installed &wget; and an APT build configured to have
+ a server to fetch from and a master keyring to validate.
+
+ APT in Debian does not support this command and relies on
+ <command>update</command> instead, but Ubuntu's APT does.
</para>