dpkg-name(1)

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NAME

6       dpkg-name - rename Debian packages to full package names
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SYNOPSIS

9       dpkg-name [option...]  [--] file...
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DESCRIPTION

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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OPTIONS

21       -a, --no-architecture
22           The destination filename will not have the architecture
23           information.
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25       -k, --symlink
26           Create a symlink, instead of moving.
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28       -o, --overwrite
29           Existing files will be overwritten if they have the same name as
30           the destination filename.
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32       -s, --subdir [dir]
33           Files will be moved into a subdirectory. If the directory given as
34           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 the
38           section is not found in the control, then no-section is assumed,
39           and in this case, as well as for sections non-free and contrib the
40           target directory is «section/binary-architecture».  The section
41           field is not required so a lot of packages will find their way to
42           the no-section area.
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44           Warning: Use this option with care, it is messy.
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46       -c, --create-dir
47           This option can used together with the -s option. If a target
48           directory isn't found it will be created automatically.
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50           Warning: Use this option with care.
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52       -?, --help
53           Show the usage message and exit.
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ENVIRONMENT

59       DPKG_COLORS
60           Sets the color mode (since dpkg 1.18.5).  The currently accepted
61           values are: auto (default), always and never.
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64           If set, it will be used to decide whether to activate Native
65           Language Support, also known as internationalization (or i18n)
66           support (since dpkg 1.19.0).  The accepted values are: 0 and 1
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BUGS

70       Some packages don't follow the name structure
71       package_version_architecture.deb.  Packages renamed by dpkg-name will
72       follow this structure. Generally this will have no impact on how
73       packages are installed by dselect(1)/dpkg(1), but other installation
74       tools might depend on this naming structure.
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EXAMPLES

77       dpkg-name bar-foo.deb
78           The file bar-foo.deb will be renamed to bar-foo_1.0-2_i386.deb or
79           something similar (depending on whatever information is in the
80           control part of bar-foo.deb).
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82       find /root/debian/ -name '*.deb' | xargs -n 1 dpkg-name -a
83           All files with the extension deb in the directory /root/debian and
84           its subdirectory's will be renamed by dpkg-name if required into
85           names with no architecture information.
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87       find -name '*.deb' | xargs -n 1 dpkg-name -a -o -s -c
88           Don't do this.  Your archive will be messed up completely because a
89           lot of packages don't come with section information.  Don't do
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92       dpkg-deb --build debian-tmp && dpkg-name -o -s .. debian-tmp.deb
93           This can be used when building new packages.
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