dpkg-name(1) dpkg suite dpkg-name(1) NAME dpkg-name - rename Debian packages to full package names SYNOPSIS dpkg-name [option...] [--] file... DESCRIPTION This manual page documents the dpkg-name program which provides an easy way to rename Debian packages into their full package names. A full package name consists of package_version_architecture.package-type as specified in the control file of the package. The version part of the filename consists of the upstream version information optionally followed by a hyphen and the revision information. The package-type part comes from that field if present or fallbacks to deb. OPTIONS -a, --no-architecture The destination filename will not have the architecture information. -k, --symlink Create a symlink, instead of moving. -o, --overwrite Existing files will be overwritten if they have the same name as the destination filename. -s, --subdir [dir] Files will be moved into a subdirectory. If the directory given as argument exists the files will be moved into that directory other- wise the name of the target directory is extracted from the section field in the control part of the package. The target directory will be <<unstable/binary-architecture/section>>. If the section is not found in the control, then no-section is assumed, and in this case, as well as for sections non-free and contrib the target directory is <<section/binary-architecture>>. The section field is not required so a lot of packages will find their way to the no-section area. Use this option with care, it's messy. -c, --create-dir This option can used together with the -s option. If a target direc- tory isn't found it will be created automatically. Use this option with care. -?, --help Show the usage message and exit. -v, --version Show the version and exit. ENVIRONMENT DPKG_COLORS Sets the color mode (since dpkg 1.18.5). The currently accepted values are: auto (default), always and never. DPKG_NLS If set, it will be used to decide whether to activate Native Lan- guage Support, also known as internationalization (or i18n) support (since dpkg 1.19.0). The accepted values are: 0 and 1 (default). BUGS Some packages don't follow the name structure package_version_architec- ture.deb. Packages renamed by dpkg-name will follow this structure. Gener- ally this will have no impact on how packages are installed by dse- lect(1)/dpkg(1), but other installation tools might depend on this naming structure. EXAMPLES dpkg-name bar-foo.deb The file bar-foo.deb will be renamed to bar-foo_1.0-2_i386.deb or something similar (depending on whatever information is in the con- trol part of bar-foo.deb). find /root/debian/ -name '*.deb' | xargs -n 1 dpkg-name -a All files with the extension deb in the directory /root/debian and its subdirectory's will be renamed by dpkg-name if required into names with no architecture information. find -name '*.deb' | xargs -n 1 dpkg-name -a -o -s -c Don't do this. Your archive will be messed up completely because a lot of packages don't come with section information. Don't do this. dpkg-deb --build debian-tmp && dpkg-name -o -s .. debian-tmp.deb This can be used when building new packages. SEE ALSO deb(5), deb-control(5), dpkg(1), dpkg-deb(1), find(1), xargs(1). 1.19.8 2022-05-24 dpkg-name(1)
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