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6 dpkg-name - rename Debian packages to full package names
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9 dpkg-name [option...] [--] file...
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12 This manual page documents the dpkg-name program which provides an easy
13 way to rename Debian packages into their full package names. A full
14 package name consists of package_version_architecture.package-type as
15 specified in the control file of the package. The version part of the
16 filename consists of the upstream version information optionally
17 followed by a hyphen and the revision information. The package-type
18 part comes from that field if present or fallbacks to deb.
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21 -a, --no-architecture
22 The destination filename will not have the architecture
23 information.
24 -k, --symlink
26 Create a symlink, instead of moving.
27 -o, --overwrite
29 Existing files will be overwritten if they have the same name as
30 the destination filename.
31 -s, --subdir [dir]
33 Files will be moved into a subdirectory. If the directory given
34 as argument exists the files will be moved into that directory
35 otherwise the name of the target directory is extracted from the
36 section field in the control part of the package. The target
37 directory will be «unstable/binary-architecture/section». If
38 the section is not found in the control, then no-section is
39 assumed, and in this case, as well as for sections non-free and
40 contrib the target directory is «section/binary-architecture».
41 The section field is not required so a lot of packages will find
42 their way to the no-section area. Use this option with care,
43 it's messy.
44 -c, --create-dir
46 This option can used together with the -s option. If a target
47 directory isn't found it will be created automatically. Use
48 this option with care.
49 -?, --help
51 Show the usage message and exit.
52 -v, --version
54 Show the version and exit.
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57 Some packages don't follow the name structure
58 package_version_architecture.deb. Packages renamed by dpkg-name will
59 follow this structure. Generally this will have no impact on how
60 packages are installed by dselect(1)/dpkg(1), but other installation
61 tools might depend on this naming structure.
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64 dpkg-name bar-foo.deb
65 The file bar-foo.deb will be renamed to bar-foo_1.0-2_i386.deb
66 or something similar (depending on whatever information is in
67 the control part of bar-foo.deb).
68 find /root/debian/ -name '*.deb' | xargs -n 1 dpkg-name -a
70 All files with the extension deb in the directory /root/debian
71 and its subdirectory's will be renamed by dpkg-name if required
72 into names with no architecture information.
73 find -name '*.deb' | xargs -n 1 dpkg-name -a -o -s -c
75 Don't do this. Your archive will be messed up completely
76 because a lot of packages don't come with section information.
77 Don't do this.
78 dpkg-deb --build debian-tmp && dpkg-name -o -s .. debian-tmp.deb
80 This can be used when building new packages.
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83 deb(5), deb-control(5), dpkg(1), dpkg-deb(1), find(1), xargs(1).
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