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authorDavid Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com>2011-02-07 22:15:51 +0100
committerDavid Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com>2011-02-07 22:15:51 +0100
commit7376837d338fd9399cfa4820b6f9bacbb2634d46 (patch)
tree2a1cc83b397cf6d12846ac592e8f00fb747c0a39 /doc/sources.list.5.xml
parent8f3853baea6191788da6befb437e92ba246c86a3 (diff)
a notice is printed for ignored files (Closes: #597615)
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@@ -57,7 +57,9 @@
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>
+ 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>
+ configuration list - in this case it will be silently ignored.</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1><title>The deb and deb-src types</title>