From 5f4331c4d265aa83229e3e58edd49e54731fb646 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:14:21 +0100 Subject: correct various errors, typos and oddities in the manpages Patch by Chris Leick which closes his on bug. Thanks! * doc/ various manpages: - correct various errors, typos and oddities (Closes: #552535) * doc/apt-secure.8.xml: - replace literal with emphasis tags in Archive configuration --- doc/sources.list.5.xml | 14 +++++++------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/sources.list.5.xml') diff --git a/doc/sources.list.5.xml b/doc/sources.list.5.xml index 379112c83..0f788aca1 100644 --- a/doc/sources.list.5.xml +++ b/doc/sources.list.5.xml @@ -34,13 +34,13 @@ The package resource list is used to locate archives of the package distribution system in use on the system. At this time, this manual page documents only the packaging system used by the Debian GNU/Linux system. - This control file is located in /etc/apt/sources.list + This control file is /etc/apt/sources.list. The source list is designed to support any number of active sources and a variety of source media. The file lists one source per line, with the most preferred source listed first. The format of each line is: type uri args The first item, type - determines the format for args uri is + determines the format for args. uri is a Universal Resource Identifier (URI), which is a superset of the more specific and well-known Universal Resource Locator, or URL. The rest of the line can be marked as a comment @@ -64,14 +64,14 @@ stable unstable or testing while component is one of main contrib non-free or - non-us The + non-us. The deb-src type describes a debian distribution's source code in the same form as the deb type. A deb-src line is required to fetch source indexes. The format for a sources.list entry using the - deb and deb-src types are: + deb and deb-src types is: deb uri distribution [component1] [component2] [...] @@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Debian distribution, from which APT will find the information it needs. distribution can specify an exact path, in which case the components must be omitted and distribution must end with - a slash (/). This is useful for when only a particular sub-section of the + a slash (/). This is useful for when the case only a particular sub-section of the archive denoted by the URI is of interest. If distribution does not specify an exact path, at least one component must be present. @@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/stable-updates/ http://server:port/, the proxy server specified in http_proxy will be used. Users of authenticated HTTP/1.1 proxies may use a string of the format - http://user:pass@server:port/ + http://user:pass@server:port/. Note that this is an insecure method of authentication. @@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian dists/stable-updates/ Uses FTP to access the archive at ftp.debian.org, under the debian directory, and uses only the unstable/contrib area. If this line appears as - well as the one in the previous example in sources.list. + well as the one in the previous example in sources.list a single FTP session will be used for both resource lines. deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable contrib -- cgit v1.2.3