Bug#57896: apt: typos in documentation
Package: apt
Version: 0.3.17
The documentation of apt contains a few typos. Here comes a diff with
some corrections as proposed by ispell and me
Christian
--- offline.text.orig Sat Feb 12 16:52:33 2000
+++ offline.text Sat Feb 12 17:01:27 2000
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
--------
This document describes how to use APT in a non-networked environment,
- specificaly a 'sneaker-net' approach for performing upgrades.
+ specifically a 'sneaker-net' approach for performing upgrades.
Copyright Notice
@@ -66,14 +66,14 @@
The solution to this is to use large removable media such as a Zip
disc or a SuperDisk disc. These discs are not large enough to store
- the entire Debian archive but can easially fit a subset large enough
+ the entire Debian archive but can easily fit a subset large enough
for most users. The idea is to use APT to generate a list of packages
that are required and then fetch them onto the disc using another
machine with good connectivity. It is even Possible to use another
Debian machine with APT or to use a completely different OS and a
download tool like wget.
- This is achived by creatively manipulating the APT configuration file.
+ This is achieved by creatively manipulating the APT configuration file.
The essential premis to tell APT to look on a disc for it's archive
files. Note that the disc should be formated with a filesystem that
can handle long file names such as ext2, fat32 or vfat.
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@
State "/disc/";
State::status "status";
- // Binary caches will be stored localy
+ // Binary caches will be stored locally
Cache::archives "/disc/archives/";
// Location of the source list.
@@ -197,8 +197,8 @@
3.2. Operation
--------------
- Unlike the previous techinque no special configuration files are
- required. We mearly use the standard APT commands to generate the file
+ Unlike the previous technique no special configuration files are
+ required. We merely use the standard APT commands to generate the file
list.
# apt-get dist-upgrade
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