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| author | David Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de> | 2018-02-27 18:05:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Julian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com> | 2018-04-15 22:36:53 +0200 |
| commit | 3e2998a560514826d8c910261407975f8c9660d4 (patch) | |
| tree | f3bd024d525625c96ff927a0ef00e7a9008c4140 /doc/sources.list.5.xml | |
| parent | 73c5027cf8ceabf7bb72fe08d4d86d07d3d72461 (diff) | |
mention mirror method in sources.list
Closes: 679580
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/sources.list.5.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/sources.list.5.xml | 11 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/sources.list.5.xml b/doc/sources.list.5.xml index c3e8980a9..ff9ac162e 100644 --- a/doc/sources.list.5.xml +++ b/doc/sources.list.5.xml @@ -409,6 +409,17 @@ deb-src [ option1=value1 option2=value2 ] uri suite [component1] [component2] [. alternative.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> + <varlistentry><term><command>mirror</command>, <command>mirror+<replaceable>scheme</replaceable></command> (&apt-transport-mirror;)</term> + <listitem><para> + The mirror scheme specifies the location of a mirrorlist. By default the + scheme used for the location is <literal>http</literal>, but any other + scheme can be used via <command>mirror+<replaceable>scheme</replaceable></command>. + The mirrorlist itself can contain many different URIs for mirrors the APT client + can transparently pick, choose and fallback between intended to help both + with distributing the load over the available mirrors and ensuring that + clients can acquire data even if some configured mirrors are not available. + </para></listitem> + </varlistentry> <varlistentry><term><command>file</command></term> <listitem><para> |