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authorDavid Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com>2011-06-29 18:15:44 +0200
committerDavid Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com>2011-06-29 18:15:44 +0200
commitf7acb21c7eea6f90f8596add1ec9514e14c1f816 (patch)
treecfc8761da3389ebe2e38c6411141d462340952df /doc/apt-key.8.xml
parent7851d583df07d81b708f62e130a9132faa495979 (diff)
clarify update vs. net-update in different distros (Closes: #632043)
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1 files changed, 12 insertions, 9 deletions
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+ the local keyring the archive keys which are no longer valid.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>