&apt-email;
&apt-product;
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- <date>29 February 2004</date>
+ <date>17 August 2009</date>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>apt-ftparchive</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
+ <refmiscinfo class="manual">APT</refmiscinfo>
</refmeta>
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<arg><option>--delink</option></arg>
<arg><option>--readonly</option></arg>
<arg><option>--contents</option></arg>
- <arg><option>-o=<replaceable>config string</replaceable></option></arg>
+ <arg><option>--arch <replaceable>architecture</replaceable></option></arg>
+ <arg><option>-o <replaceable>config</replaceable>=<replaceable>string</replaceable></option></arg>
<arg><option>-c=<replaceable>file</replaceable></option></arg>
<group choice="req">
<arg>packages<arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>path</replaceable></arg><arg><replaceable>override</replaceable><arg><replaceable>pathprefix</replaceable></arg></arg></arg>
<para>
The <literal>Dir</literal> section defines the standard directories needed to
locate the files required during the generation process. These
- directories are prepended to certain relative paths defined in later
+ directories are prepended certain relative paths defined in later
sections to produce a complete an absolute path.</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term>ArchiveDir</term>
This is similar to <literal>Packages::Compress</literal>
except that it controls the compression for the Contents files.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
+
+ <varlistentry><term>Translation::Compress</term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ This is similar to <literal>Packages::Compress</literal>
+ except that it controls the compression for the Translation-en master file.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry><term>DeLinkLimit</term>
<listitem><para>
Specifies the number of kilobytes to delink (and
defaults to 0644. All index files are set to this mode with no regard
to the umask.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry><term>LongDescription</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>
+ </varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect2>
<varlistentry><term>Sources</term>
<listitem><para>
- Sets the output Packages file. Defaults to
+ Sets the output Sources file. Defaults to
<filename>$(DIST)/$(SECTION)/source/Sources</filename></para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
+
+ <varlistentry><term>Translation</term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ Set 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>
+
<varlistentry><term>InternalPrefix</term>
<listitem><para>
Sets the path prefix that causes a symlink to be
Specifies that instead of walking the directory tree,
<command>apt-ftparchive</command> should read the list of files from the given
file. Relative files names are prefixed with the archive directory.
- This is used when processing source indexs.</para></listitem>
+ This is used when processing source indexes.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect2>
<para>
When processing a <literal>Tree</literal> section <command>apt-ftparchive</command>
performs an operation similar to:
-
<informalexample><programlisting>
for i in Sections do
for j in Architectures do
Generate for DIST=scope SECTION=i ARCH=j
-</programlisting></informalexample></para>
+ </programlisting></para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term>Sections</term>
architectures that appear under search section. The special architecture
'source' is used to indicate that this tree has a source archive.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
-
+
+ <varlistentry><term>LongDescription</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>
+ </varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry><term>BinOverride</term>
<listitem><para>
Sets the binary override file. The override file
<listitem><para>
Make the caching databases read only.
Configuration Item: <literal>APT::FTPArchive::ReadOnlyDB</literal>.</para></listitem>
- </varlistentry>
-
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry><term><option>-a</option></term><term><option>--arch</option></term>
+ <listitem><para>Accept in the <literal>packages</literal> and <literal>contents</literal>
+ commands only package files matching <literal>*_arch.deb</literal> or
+ <literal>*_all.deb</literal> instead of all package files in the given path.
+ Configuration Item: <literal>APT::FTPArchive::Architecture</literal>.</para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry><term><option>APT::FTPArchive::AlwaysStat</option></term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ &apt-ftparchive; caches as much as possible of metadata in a cachedb. If packages
+ are recompiled and/or republished with the same version again, this will lead to problems
+ as the now outdated cached metadata like size and checksums will be used. With this option
+ enabled this will no longer happen as it will be checked if the file was changed.
+ Note that this option is set to "<literal>false</literal>" by default as it is not recommend
+ to upload multiply versions/builds of a package with the same versionnumber, so in theory
+ nobody will have these problems and therefore all these extra checks are useless.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
+ <varlistentry><term><option>APT::FTPArchive::LongDescription</option></term>
+ <listitem><para>
+ This configuration option defaults to "<literal>true</literal>" and should only be set to
+ <literal>"false"</literal> if the Archive generated with &apt-ftparchive; also provides
+ <filename>Translation</filename> files. Note that the <filename>Translation-en</filename>
+ master file can only be created in the generate command.
+ </para></listitem>
+ </varlistentry>
+
&apt-commonoptions;
</variablelist>
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