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+.\" $Id: sources.list.5,v 1.1 1998/07/02 02:58:12 jgg Exp $
+.\" This manpage is copyright (C) 1998 Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org>.
+.\" 
+.\" This is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify
+.\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2,
+.\" or (at your option) any later version.
+.\"
+.\" This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+.\" WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+.\" GNU General Public License for more details.
+.\"
+.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
+.\" License along with APT; if not, write to the Free Software
+.\" Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 
+.\" 02111-1307 USA
+.TH sources.list 5 "16 June 1998" "Debian GNU/Linux"
+.SH NAME
+sources.list \- package resource list for APT
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The package resource list is used to locate archives of the package
+distribution system in use on the system. At this time, this manual page
+documents only the packaging system used by the Debian GNU/Linux system.
+.PP
+The source list is designed to support any number of active sources and a
+variety of source media. The file lists one source per line, with the
+most preferred source listed first. The format of each line is:
+.I type uri args
+The first item,
+.IR type ,
+determines the format for
+.IR args .
+.I uri
+is a Universal Resource Identifier (URI), which is a superset of the more
+specific and well-known Universal Resource Locator, or URL.
+.SS The deb type
+The
+.B deb
+type describes a typical two-level Debian archive,
+.IR distribution / component .
+Typically,
+.I distribution
+is one of
+.BR stable ,
+.BR unstable ,
+or
+.BR frozen ,
+while component is one of
+.BR main ,
+.BR contrib ,
+.BR non-free ,
+or
+.BR non-us .
+The format for a
+.I sources.list
+entry using the
+.B deb
+type is:
+.RS
+deb
+.I uri distribution
+.RI [ component
+.I ...
+]
+.RE
+The URI for the
+.B deb
+type must specify the base of the Debian distribution, from which
+.B APT
+will find the information it needs.
+.I distribution
+can specify an exact path, in which case the
+.IR component s
+must be omitted and
+.I distribution
+must end with a slash (/). This is useful for when only a particular
+sub-section of the archive denoted by the URI is of interest.
+If
+.I distribution
+does not specify an exact path, at least one
+.I component
+must be present.
+.PP
+.I distribution
+may also contain a variable, 
+.BR $(ARCH) ,
+which expands to the Debian architecture (i386, m68k, powerpc, ...)     
+used on the system. This permits archiecture-independent                
+.I sources.list
+files to be used.
+.PP
+Since only one distribution can be specified per line it may be necessary
+to have multiple lines for the same URI, if a subset of all available
+distributions or components at that location is desired.
+.B APT
+will sort the URI list after it has generated a complete set internally,
+and will collapse multiple references to the same Internet host, for
+instance, into a single connection, so that it does not inefficiently
+establish an FTP connection, close it, do something else, and then
+re-establish a connection to that same host. This feature is useful
+for accessing busy FTP sites with limits on the number of simultaneous
+anonymous users.
+.PP
+It is important to list sources in order of preference, with the most
+preferred source listed first. Typically this will result in sorting
+by speed from fastest to slowest (CD-ROM followed by hosts on a local
+network, followed by distant Internet hosts, for example).
+.SS URI specification
+The three currently recognized URI types are file, http, and ftp.
+.IP file
+The file scheme allows an arbitrary directory in the file system to be
+considered an archive. This is useful for NFS mounts and local mirrors or
+archives.
+.IP http
+The http scheme specifies an HTTP server for the archive. If an environment
+variable
+.B $http_proxy
+is set with the format
+.\" Ugly hackery ahead, nroff doesn't like three different typefaces in a
+.\" row with no spaces between anything.
+.BI http:// server : port /\c
+, the proxy server specified in
+.B $http_proxy
+will be used. Users of
+authenticated HTTP/1.1 proxies may use a string of the format
+.BI http:// user : pass @ server : port /\c
+.\" For some reason, starting the next line with \. didn't work. So we kludge.
+\&. Note that this is an insecure method of authentication.
+.IP ftp
+The ftp scheme specifies an FTP server for the archive. APT's FTP behavior
+is highly configurable; for more information see the
+.BR ftp.conf (5)
+manual page.
+.SH EXAMPLES
+.IP "deb file:/home/jason/debian stable main contrib non-free"
+Uses the archive stored locally (or NFS mounted) at
+.I /home/jason/debian
+for stable/main, stable/contrib, and stable/non-free.
+.IP "deb file:/home/jason/debian unstable main contrib non-free"
+As above, except this uses the unstable (development) distribution.
+.IP "deb http://www.debian.org/archive stable main"
+Uses HTTP to access the archive at www.debian.org, and uses only the
+stable/main area.
+.IP "deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable contrib"
+Uses FTP to access the archive at ftp.debian.org, under the debian
+directory, and uses only the stable/contrib area.
+.IP "deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian unstable contrib"
+Uses FTP to access the archive at ftp.debian.org, under the debian
+directory, and uses only the unstable/contrib area. If this line appears as
+well as the one in the previous example in
+.IR sources.list ,
+a single FTP session will be used for both resource lines.
+.IP "deb ftp://nonus.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/binary-i386/"
+Uses FTP to access the archive at nonus.debian.org, under the debian-non-US
+directory, and uses only files found under unstable/binary-i386.
+.IP "deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable/binary-$(ARCH)/"
+Uses HTTP to access the archive at nonus.debian.org, under the
+debian-non-US directory, and uses only files found under
+unstable/binary-i386 on i386 machines, unstable/binary-m68k on m68k, and so
+forth for other supported architectures.
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.BR apt (8),
+.BR apt-cache (8),
+.BR apt-get (8),
+.BR ftp.conf (5)
+.SH BUGS
+See <http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/pa/lapt.html>.  If you wish to report a
+bug in
+.BR apt-get ,
+please see
+.I /usr/doc/debian/bug-reporting.txt
+or the
+.BR bug (1)
+command.
+.SH AUTHOR
+APT was written by the APT team <apt@packages.debian.org>.