diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml | 34 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml b/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml index 84b5f4135..1a827b6ad 100644 --- a/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml +++ b/doc/apt-ftparchive.1.xml @@ -93,12 +93,12 @@ <listitem><para> The <literal>release</literal> command generates a Release file from a directory tree. It recursively searches the given directory for uncompressed - <filename>Packages</filename> and <filename>Sources</filename> files and the ones + <filename>Packages</filename> and <filename>Sources</filename> files and ones compressed with <command>gzip</command>, <command>bzip2</command> or <command>lzma</command> as well as <filename>Release</filename> and <filename>md5sum.txt</filename> files by default (<literal>APT::FTPArchive::Release::Default-Patterns</literal>). Additional filename patterns can be added by listing them in <literal>APT::FTPArchive::Release::Patterns</literal>. - It then writes to stdout a Release file containing a MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 digest + It then writes to stdout a <filename>Release</filename> file containing an MD5, SHA1 and SHA256 digest for each file.</para> <para> Values for the additional metadata fields in the Release file are @@ -139,7 +139,7 @@ tree manner. This only effects how the scope tag is handled.</para> <para> - The generate configuration has 4 separate sections, each described below.</para> + The generate configuration has four separate sections, each described below.</para> <refsect2><title><literal>Dir</literal> Section</title> <para> @@ -162,7 +162,7 @@ <varlistentry><term><option>CacheDir</option></term> <listitem><para> - Specifies the location of the cache files</para></listitem> + Specifies the location of the cache files.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry><term><option>FileListDir</option></term> @@ -233,8 +233,8 @@ <varlistentry><term><option>LongDescription</option></term> <listitem><para> - Sets if long descriptions should be included in the Packages file or split - out into a master Translation-en file.</para></listitem> + Specifies whether long descriptions should be included in the <filename>Packages</filename> file or split + out into a master <filename>Translation-en</filename> file.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> </variablelist> </refsect2> @@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ <varlistentry><term><option>Translation</option></term> <listitem><para> - Set the output Translation-en master file with the long descriptions if they + Sets the output Translation-en master file with the long descriptions if they should be not included in the Packages file. Defaults to <filename>$(DIST)/$(SECTION)/i18n/Translation-en</filename></para></listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -306,7 +306,7 @@ <listitem><para> Sets the output Contents file. Defaults to <filename>$(DIST)/Contents-$(ARCH)</filename>. If this setting causes multiple - Packages files to map onto a single Contents file (such as the default) + Packages files to map onto a single Contents file (as is the default) then <command>apt-ftparchive</command> will integrate those package files together automatically.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -352,7 +352,7 @@ Typically this is a setting such as <filename>dists/&stable-codename;</filename>.</para> <para> All of the settings defined in the <literal>TreeDefault</literal> section can be - use in a <literal>Tree</literal> section as well as three new variables.</para> + used in a <literal>Tree</literal> section as well as three new variables.</para> <para> When processing a <literal>Tree</literal> section <command>apt-ftparchive</command> performs an operation similar to: @@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ for i in Sections do <varlistentry><term><option>Sections</option></term> <listitem><para> This is a space separated list of sections which appear - under the distribution, typically this is something like + under the distribution; typically this is something like <literal>main contrib non-free</literal></para></listitem> </varlistentry> @@ -379,8 +379,8 @@ for i in Sections do <varlistentry><term><option>LongDescription</option></term> <listitem><para> - Sets if long descriptions should be included in the Packages file or split - out into a master Translation-en file.</para></listitem> + Specifies whether long descriptions should be included in the <filename>Packages</filename> file or split + out into a master <filename>Translation-en</filename> file.</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry><term><option>BinOverride</option></term> @@ -428,7 +428,7 @@ for i in Sections do <varlistentry><term><option>Contents</option></term> <listitem><para> - Sets the Contents file output. (optional)</para></listitem> + Sets the Contents file output (optional).</para></listitem> </varlistentry> <varlistentry><term><option>BinOverride</option></term> @@ -472,8 +472,8 @@ for i in Sections do <refsect1><title>The Binary Override File</title> <para>The binary override file is fully compatible with &dpkg-scanpackages;. It - contains 4 fields separated by spaces. The first field is the package name, - the second is the priority to force that package to, the third is the + contains four fields separated by spaces. The first field is the package name, + the second is the priority to force that package to, the third is the section to force that package to and the final field is the maintainer permutation field.</para> <para>The general form of the maintainer field is: @@ -490,14 +490,14 @@ for i in Sections do <refsect1><title>The Source Override File</title> <para> The source override file is fully compatible with &dpkg-scansources;. It - contains 2 fields separated by spaces. The first fields is the source + contains two fields separated by spaces. The first field is the source package name, the second is the section to assign it.</para> </refsect1> <refsect1><title>The Extra Override File</title> <para> The extra override file allows any arbitrary tag to be added or replaced - in the output. It has 3 columns, the first is the package, the second is + in the output. It has three columns, the first is the package, the second is the tag and the remainder of the line is the new value.</para> </refsect1> |