Minor problem with documentation for es debian installation

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The documentation for installing the debian package suggests running:

echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/7.x/apt stable main" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-7.x.list

We added this to our chef scripts and this of course runs a lot and ends up appending the same line over and over again. This slows down apt-get operations to the point where it is unusable. When I checked the file it had 500 lines already.

I would suggest changing this to

echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/7.x/apt stable main" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-7.x.list

without the -a. or to
echo "deb https://artifacts.elastic.co/packages/7.x/apt stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/elastic-7.x.list

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Hey Jilles,

do you mind open a PR or a doc issue for this one?

--Alex

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Sure, I wasn't sure whether this needed further discussion or whether there is a usecase for this file to have multiple entries. Do you have separate tags for documentation issues?

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indeed, there's a dedicated >docs tag

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