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authorMichael Vogt <egon@tas>2008-11-12 16:21:38 +0100
committerMichael Vogt <egon@tas>2008-11-12 16:21:38 +0100
commitc498e8d049f446c192446cf879728eacbd81cead (patch)
treeffdb3db47e567a35748e3d87b440fd60fad28e3c /doc/sources.list.5.xml
parentb0c16d166730b46992451b838073e9d36a8164e1 (diff)
parentecd414ef61a325e8596e6a541696e350cb956753 (diff)
* doc/sources.list.5.xml:
- Mentioned allowed characters in file names in /etc/apt/sources.list.d. Thanks to Matthias Urlichs. (Closes: #426913) * doc/apt-get.8.xml: - Included '-v'/'--version' as a command to synopsis. * cmdline/apt-cache.cc: - Advanced built-in help. Patch by Andre Felipe Machado. (Closes: #286061) - Fixed typo 'GraphVis' -> 'GraphViz'. (Closes: #349038) - Removed asking to file a release-critical bug against a package if there is a request to install only one package and it is not installable. (Closes: #419521)
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@@ -48,9 +48,12 @@
<refsect1><title>sources.list.d</title>
<para>The <filename>/etc/apt/sources.list.d</filename> directory provides
- a way to add sources.list entries in separate files whose names end with
- <literal>.list</literal>. The format is the same as for the regular
- <filename>sources.list</filename> file. </para>
+ a way to add sources.list entries in separate files.
+ The format is the same as for the regular <filename>sources.list</filename> file.
+ File names need to end with
+ <filename>.list</filename> and may only contain letters (a-z and A-Z),
+ digits (0-9), underscore (_), hyphen (-) and period (.) characters.
+ Otherwise they will be silently ignored.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1><title>The deb and deb-src types</title>