From f7acb21c7eea6f90f8596add1ec9514e14c1f816 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Kalnischkies Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 18:15:44 +0200 Subject: clarify update vs. net-update in different distros (Closes: #632043) --- doc/apt-key.8.xml | 21 ++++++++++++--------- doc/apt-verbatim.ent | 6 ++++++ 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/apt-key.8.xml b/doc/apt-key.8.xml index 9bfab84b6..f17f0c45e 100644 --- a/doc/apt-key.8.xml +++ b/doc/apt-key.8.xml @@ -128,9 +128,10 @@ - Update the local keyring with the keyring of Debian archive - keys and removes from the keyring the archive keys which are no - longer valid. + Update the local keyring with the archive keyring and remove from + the local keyring the archive keys which are no longer valid. + The archive keyring is shipped in the archive-keyring package of your + distribution, e.g. the debian-archive-keyring package in Debian. @@ -141,12 +142,14 @@ - Update the local keyring with the keys of a key server - and removes from the keyring the archive keys which are no - longer valid. This requires an installed wget and an APT - build configured to have a server to fetch from. APT in - Debian does not support this command, but Ubuntu's APT - does. + Work similar to the update command above, but get the + archive keyring from an URI instead and validate it against a master key. + + This requires an installed &wget; and an APT build configured to have + a server to fetch from and a master keyring to validate. + + APT in Debian does not support this command and relies on + update instead, but Ubuntu's APT does. diff --git a/doc/apt-verbatim.ent b/doc/apt-verbatim.ent index a194a9d0d..14cd70e89 100644 --- a/doc/apt-verbatim.ent +++ b/doc/apt-verbatim.ent @@ -148,6 +148,12 @@ " > + + wget + 1 + " +> + -- cgit v1.2.3