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Diffstat (limited to 'man/dpkg-scansources.1')
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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/man/dpkg-scansources.1 b/man/dpkg-scansources.1 index 830f829f0..8583567f6 100644 --- a/man/dpkg-scansources.1 +++ b/man/dpkg-scansources.1 @@ -18,8 +18,8 @@ stdout. .PP The \fIoverride-file\fR, if given, is used to set priorities in the resulting index records and to override the maintainer field given in the \fI.dsc\fR -files. See -.BR dpkg-scanpackages (1) +files. The file can be compressed. See +.BR deb-override (5) for the format of this file. \s-1NB:\s0 Since the override file is indexed by binary, not source, packages, there's a bit of a problem here. The current implementation uses the highest priority of @@ -48,12 +48,14 @@ Don't sort the index records. Normally they are sorted by source package name. .TP .IP "\fB\-e\fR, \fB\-\-extra\-override\fR \fIfile\fP" 4 -Scan \fIfile\fP to find supplementary overrides. See +Scan \fIfile\fP to find supplementary overrides (the file can be +compressed). See .BR deb\-extra\-override (5) for more information on its format. .IP "\fB\-s\fR, \fB\-\-source\-override\fR \fIfile\fR" 4 -Use \fIfile\fR as the source override file. The default is the name of the -override file you specified with \fI.src\fR appended. +Use \fIfile\fR as the source override file (the file can be compressed). +The default is the name of the override file you specified with \fI.src\fR +appended. .sp The source override file is in a different format from the binary override file. It contains only two whitespace separated fields, the first is the |