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authorMichael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>2008-12-09 17:49:46 -0800
committerMichael Vogt <michael.vogt@ubuntu.com>2008-12-09 17:49:46 -0800
commitde4e6f6b78154cf2c4afea4aea74b5bca3fba96f (patch)
tree2759f5959ce15112935a2e9d22e6395e8b0ddd71 /doc/sources.list.5.xml
parentf23153d046f014f96d442fca5b9ef6ede7fcf546 (diff)
parent3205e1f3b0dc9310fe767aef23824d0deb7a26bf (diff)
merged from the debian-sid branch
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diff --git a/doc/sources.list.5.xml b/doc/sources.list.5.xml
index e47418b27..b875086ef 100644
--- a/doc/sources.list.5.xml
+++ b/doc/sources.list.5.xml
@@ -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 seperate files that 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>
@@ -115,7 +118,8 @@ deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/stable-updates/
<refsect1><title>URI specification</title>
- <para>The currently recognized URI types are cdrom, file, http, and ftp.
+ <para>The currently recognized URI types are cdrom, file, http, ftp, copy,
+ ssh, rsh.
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term>file</term>
<listitem><para>
@@ -163,8 +167,8 @@ deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/stable-updates/
<varlistentry><term>rsh</term><term>ssh</term>
<listitem><para>
The rsh/ssh method invokes rsh/ssh to connect to a remote host
- as a given user and access the files. No password authentication is
- possible, prior arrangements with RSA keys or rhosts must have been made.
+ as a given user and access the files. It is a good idea to do prior
+ arrangements with RSA keys or rhosts.
Access to files on the remote uses standard <command>find</command> and
<command>dd</command>
commands to perform the file transfers from the remote.</para></listitem>