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-rw-r--r--doc/apt-cache.8.xml10
-rw-r--r--doc/apt.conf.5.xml6
-rw-r--r--doc/apt_preferences.5.xml6
-rw-r--r--doc/sources.list.5.xml4
4 files changed, 13 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml
index 359d210ea..9c6c64dac 100644
--- a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml
+++ b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@
&apt-email;
&apt-product;
<!-- The last update date -->
- <date>29 February 2004</date>
+ <date>04 February 2011</date>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
<!-- Man page title -->
<refnamediv>
<refname>apt-cache</refname>
- <refpurpose>APT package handling utility -- cache manipulator</refpurpose>
+ <refpurpose>query the APT cache</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<!-- Arguments -->
@@ -41,7 +41,6 @@
<arg><option>-o=<replaceable>config string</replaceable></option></arg>
<arg><option>-c=<replaceable>file</replaceable></option></arg>
<group choice="req">
- <arg>add <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>file</replaceable></arg></arg>
<arg>gencaches</arg>
<arg>showpkg <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>pkg</replaceable></arg></arg>
<arg>showsrc <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>pkg</replaceable></arg></arg>
@@ -72,11 +71,6 @@
commands below must be present.</para>
<variablelist>
- <varlistentry><term>add <replaceable>file(s)</replaceable></term>
- <listitem><para><literal>add</literal> adds the named package index files to the package cache.
- This is for debugging only.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
<varlistentry><term>gencaches</term>
<listitem><para><literal>gencaches</literal> performs the same operation as
<command>apt-get check</command>. It builds the source and package caches from
diff --git a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
index a423dac24..477507598 100644
--- a/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
+++ b/doc/apt.conf.5.xml
@@ -52,8 +52,10 @@
<listitem><para>all files in <literal>Dir::Etc::Parts</literal> in
alphanumeric ascending order which have no or "<literal>conf</literal>"
as filename extension and which only contain alphanumeric,
- hyphen (-), underscore (_) and period (.) characters -
- otherwise they will be silently ignored.</para></listitem>
+ 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>
+ configuration list - in this case it will be silently ignored.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>the main configuration file specified by
<literal>Dir::Etc::main</literal></para></listitem>
<listitem><para>the command line options are applied to override the
diff --git a/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml b/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml
index 54c01100c..0d22d0413 100644
--- a/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml
+++ b/doc/apt_preferences.5.xml
@@ -71,8 +71,10 @@ You have been warned.</para>
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 (-),
-underscore (_) and period (.) characters - otherwise they will be silently
-ignored.</para>
+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>
+configuration list - in this case it will be silently ignored.</para>
<refsect2><title>APT's Default Priority Assignments</title>
diff --git a/doc/sources.list.5.xml b/doc/sources.list.5.xml
index 212ed6d98..837f07683 100644
--- a/doc/sources.list.5.xml
+++ b/doc/sources.list.5.xml
@@ -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>