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authorDavid Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com>2011-02-07 22:15:51 +0100
committerDavid Kalnischkies <kalnischkies@gmail.com>2011-02-07 22:15:51 +0100
commit7376837d338fd9399cfa4820b6f9bacbb2634d46 (patch)
tree2a1cc83b397cf6d12846ac592e8f00fb747c0a39 /doc
parent8f3853baea6191788da6befb437e92ba246c86a3 (diff)
a notice is printed for ignored files (Closes: #597615)
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/apt.conf.5.xml6
-rw-r--r--doc/apt_preferences.5.xml6
-rw-r--r--doc/sources.list.5.xml4
3 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
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>