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authorArch Librarian <arch@canonical.com>2004-09-20 16:55:50 +0000
committerArch Librarian <arch@canonical.com>2004-09-20 16:55:50 +0000
commit27b15b3b0c38d1e557feb908393f45abff58eb09 (patch)
tree9e40718cf8876a9c949029d8b11652524f2e81f2 /doc/sources.list.5.yo
parent7fd9eec4e33a1afe981a7c26be78a98b8acdb0b3 (diff)
Clarified the documenation examples for non-us. Closes:...
Author: jgg Date: 2000-05-10 05:55:31 GMT Clarified the documenation examples for non-us. Closes: #58646 Man Page typo. Closes: #60347 Added blurb about the timeout option
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@@ -124,14 +124,15 @@ well as the one in the previous example in bf(sources.list),
a single FTP session will be used for both resource lines.
quote("deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable contrib")
-Uses FTP to access the archive at nonus.debian.org, under the debian-non-US
-directory, and uses only files found under unstable/binary-i386.
-quote("deb ftp://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/binary-i386/")
+Uses HTTP to access the archive at nonus.debian.org, under the debian-non-US
+directory.
+quote("deb http://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US stable/non-US main contrib non-free")
Uses HTTP to access the archive at nonus.debian.org, under the
debian-non-US directory, and uses only files found under
unstable/binary-i386 on i386 machines, unstable/binary-m68k on m68k, and so
-forth for other supported architectures.
+forth for other supported architectures. [Note this example only illistrates
+how to use the substitation variable non-us is no longer structured like this]
quote("deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/binary-$(ARCH)/")
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