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authorDavid Kalnischkies <david@kalnischkies.de>2018-02-27 18:05:10 +0100
committerJulian Andres Klode <julian.klode@canonical.com>2018-04-15 22:36:53 +0200
commit3e2998a560514826d8c910261407975f8c9660d4 (patch)
treef3bd024d525625c96ff927a0ef00e7a9008c4140 /doc
parent73c5027cf8ceabf7bb72fe08d4d86d07d3d72461 (diff)
downloadapt-3e2998a560514826d8c910261407975f8c9660d4.tar.gz
mention mirror method in sources.list
Closes: 679580
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/apt-verbatim.ent6
-rw-r--r--doc/sources.list.5.xml11
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/apt-verbatim.ent b/doc/apt-verbatim.ent
index a693e621e..d4b669497 100644
--- a/doc/apt-verbatim.ent
+++ b/doc/apt-verbatim.ent
@@ -93,6 +93,12 @@
</citerefentry>"
>
+<!ENTITY apt-transport-mirror "<citerefentry>
+ <refentrytitle><command>apt-transport-mirror</command></refentrytitle>
+ <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+ </citerefentry>"
+>
+
<!ENTITY sources-list "<citerefentry>
<refentrytitle><filename>sources.list</filename></refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
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>