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diff --git a/doc/files.sgml b/doc/files.sgml index 6a9f3ed27..82650a9bc 100644 --- a/doc/files.sgml +++ b/doc/files.sgml @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <title>APT Files</title> <author>Jason Gunthorpe <email>jgg@debian.org</email></author> -<version>$Id: files.sgml,v 1.8 2001/02/20 07:03:17 jgg Exp $</version> +<version>$Id: files.sgml,v 1.9 2001/04/04 05:00:15 jgg Exp $</version> <abstract> This document describes the complete implementation and format of the @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ which indicates a standard debian archive with a dists dir. contrib, non-free or non-us. The format for the deb line is as follows: <p> - deb <var>uri</var> <var>distribution</var> <var>compontent</var> + deb <var>uri</var> <var>distribution</var> <var>component</var> [<var>component</var> ...] <p> @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ which indicates a standard debian archive with a dists dir. necessary to list a number of deb lines for the same URI. APT will sort the URI list after it has generated a complete set to allow connection reuse. It is important to order things in the sourcelist - from most prefered to least prefered (fastest to slowest). + from most preferred to least preferred (fastest to slowest). </sect1> <sect1>URI specification @@ -125,12 +125,12 @@ URIs in the source list support a large number of access schemes. <taglist> <tag>cdrom<item> - The cdrom scheme is special in that If Modifed Since queries are never + The cdrom scheme is special in that If Modified Since queries are never performed and that APT knows how to match a cdrom to the name it was given when first inserted. APT also knows all of the possible mount points the cdrom drives and that the user should be prompted to insert a CD if it cannot be found. The path is relative to an - arbitary mount point (of APT's choosing) and must not start with a + arbitrary mount point (of APT's choosing) and must not start with a slash. The first pathname component is the given name and is purely descriptive and of the users choice. However, if a file in the root of the cdrom is called '.disk/info' its contents will be used instead of @@ -140,7 +140,7 @@ URIs in the source list support a large number of access schemes. </example> <tag>http<item> - This scheme specifies a HTTP server for the debian archive. HTTP is prefered + This scheme specifies a HTTP server for the debian archive. HTTP is preferred over FTP because If Modified Since queries against the Package file are possible as well as deep pipelining and resume capabilities. <example> @@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ URIs in the source list support a large number of access schemes. </example> <tag>file<item> - The file scheme allows an arbitary directory in the file system to be + The file scheme allows an arbitrary directory in the file system to be considered as a debian archive. This is useful for NFS mounts and local mirrors/archives. <example> @@ -173,13 +173,13 @@ URIs in the source list support a large number of access schemes. <sect1>Hashing the URI <p> -All permanent information aquired from any of the sources is stored in the +All permanent information acquired from any of the sources is stored in the lists directory. Thus, there must be a way to relate the filename in the lists directory to a line in the sourcelist. To simplify things this is done by quoting the URI and treating _'s as quoteable characters and converting / to _. The URI spec says this is done by converting a sensitive character into %xx where xx is the hexadecimal representation -from the ascii character set. Examples: +from the ASCII character set. Examples: <example> http://www.debian.org/archive/dists/stable/binary-i386/Packages @@ -209,9 +209,9 @@ here as well. The extra status file serves the same purpose as the normal dpkg status file (/var/lib/dpkg/status) except that it stores information unique to apt. This includes the autoflag, target distribution and version and any other -uniqe features that come up over time. It duplicates nothing from the normal +unique features that come up over time. It duplicates nothing from the normal dpkg status file. Please see other APT documentation for a discussion -of the exact internal behavior of these fields. The Package field is +of the exact internal behaviour of these fields. The Package field is placed directly before the new fields to indicate which package they apply to. The new fields are as follows: @@ -251,12 +251,12 @@ change to use a prebuilt version for greater speed. <p> The archives directory is where all downloaded .deb archives go. When the file transfer is initiated the deb is placed in partial. Once the file -is fully downloaded and its MD5 hash and size are verifitied it is moved +is fully downloaded and its MD5 hash and size are verified it is moved from partial into archives/. Any files found in archives/ can be assumed to be verified. <p> -No dirctory structure is transfered from the receiving site and all .deb +No directory structure is transfered from the receiving site and all .deb file names conform to debian conventions. No short (msdos) filename should be placed in archives. If the need arises .debs should be unpacked, scanned and renamed to their correct internal names. This is mostly to prevent @@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ format and style mirror the Package file. <taglist> <tag>Site<item> This is the proper host name of the site. It should not be a host within -debian.org and generally cnames should be advoided here. +debian.org and generally cnames should be avoided here. <tag>Aliases<item> These list any commonly used aliases for the site. This field is used to make @@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ other mirrors are leaf. The Archive field gives the path(s) to the debian archive. [access] specifies the access method and may be one of ftp, http, rsync, nfs, or smb. For many of the types it is possible to prefix the path with :### -indicating that an alternate port should be used. Generaly paths +indicating that an alternate port should be used. Generally paths start with a / and end with a /, rsync is an exception in that the first directory component is not a path but a label. @@ -370,7 +370,7 @@ This is the common name we give our archives, such as <em>stable</> or <em>unstable</>. <tag>Component<item> -Referes to the sub-component of the archive, <em>main</>, <em>contrib</> +Refers to the sub-component of the archive, <em>main</>, <em>contrib</> etc. Component may be omitted if there are no components for this archive. <tag>Version<item> @@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ release, 1.3.1r6 <example> Archive: stable -Compontent: main +Component: main Version: 1.3.1r6 Origin: Debian Label: Debian @@ -429,7 +429,7 @@ NotAutomatic: Yes And unstable, <example> Archive: unstable -Compontent: main +Component: main Version: 2.1 Origin: Debian Label: Debian |