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authorMichael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>2011-06-28 22:41:29 +0100
committerMichael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>2011-06-28 22:41:29 +0100
commit72bc4387bb8324c0b359d4acff144f32ebf13683 (patch)
tree893ce4ae33bee4bb53f13bc733c4068e18347561 /doc/apt_preferences.5.xml
parentd97582a768690ea79679e51d26fc241c72825880 (diff)
parente449f717078978396b76a2fdae844196888d0211 (diff)
merged from debian-sid
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diff --git a/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml b/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml
index 55504f3e5..f08f92b94 100644
--- a/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml
+++ b/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml
@@ -69,8 +69,8 @@ You have been warned.</para>
<para>Note that the files in the <filename>/etc/apt/preferences.d</filename>
directory are parsed in alphanumeric ascending order and need to obey the
-following naming convention: The files have no or "<literal>pref</literal>"
-as filename extension and which only contain alphanumeric, hyphen (-),
+following naming convention: The files have either no or "<literal>pref</literal>"
+as filename extension and only contain alphanumeric, hyphen (-),
underscore (_) and period (.) characters.
Otherwise APT will print a notice that it has ignored a file if the file
doesn't match a pattern in the <literal>Dir::Ignore-Files-Silently</literal>
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ APT also supports pinning by glob() expressions and regular
expressions surrounded by /. For example, the following
example assigns the priority 500 to all packages from
experimental where the name starts with gnome (as a glob()-like
-expression or contains the word kde (as a POSIX extended regular
+expression) or contains the word kde (as a POSIX extended regular
expression surrounded by slashes).
</para>
@@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ Pin-Priority: 500
<para>
The rule for those expressions is that they can occur anywhere
-where a string can occur. Those, the following pin assigns the
+where a string can occur. Thus, the following pin assigns the
priority 990 to all packages from a release starting with karmic.
</para>