1 # dpkg manual page - dpkg-trigger(1)
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22 dpkg-trigger - a package trigger utility
27 [I<option>...] I<trigger-name>
30 [I<option>...] I<command>
34 B<dpkg-trigger> is a tool to explicitly activate triggers and check
35 for its support on the running B<dpkg>.
37 This can be used by maintainer scripts in complex and conditional
38 situations where the file triggers, or the declarative B<activate>
39 triggers control file directive, are insufficiently rich. It can also
40 be used for testing and by system administrators (but note that the
41 triggers won't actually be run by B<dpkg-trigger>).
43 Unrecognized trigger name syntaxes are an error for B<dpkg-trigger>.
49 =item B<--check-supported>
51 Check if the running B<dpkg> supports triggers (usually called from a
52 postinst). Will exit B<0> if a triggers-capable B<dpkg> has run,
53 or B<1> with an error message to stderr if not. Normally, however,
54 it is better just to activate the desired trigger with B<dpkg-trigger>.
56 =item B<-?>, B<--help>
58 Show the usage message and exit.
62 Show the version and exit.
70 =item B<--admindir=>I<dir>
72 Change the location of the B<dpkg> database.
73 Defaults to I<%ADMINDIR%> if B<DPKG_ADMINDIR> has not been set.
75 =item B<--root=>I<directory>
77 Set the root directory to I<directory>, which sets the administrative
78 directory to «I<directory>%ADMINDIR%» (since dpkg 1.21.0).
80 =item B<--by-package=>I<package>
82 Override trigger awaiter (normally set by B<dpkg> through the
83 B<DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE> environment variable of the maintainer scripts,
84 naming the package to which the script belongs, and this will be used
89 This option arranges that the calling package I<T> (if any) need not await
90 the processing of this trigger; the interested package(s) I<I>, will not be
91 added to I<T>'s trigger processing awaited list and I<T>'s status is unchanged.
92 I<T> may be considered installed even though I<I> may not yet have
93 processed the trigger.
97 This option does the inverse of B<--no-await> (since dpkg 1.17.21).
98 If the interested package has declared a “noawait” directive, then this
99 option will not be effective.
100 It is currently the default behavior.
104 Just test, do not actually change anything.
114 The requested action was successfully performed.
115 Or a check or assertion command returned true.
119 A check or assertion command returned false.
123 Fatal or unrecoverable error due to invalid command-line usage, or
124 interactions with the system, such as accesses to the database,
125 memory allocations, etc.
135 If set and the B<--root> option has not been specified, it will be used as
136 the filesystem root directory (since dpkg 1.21.0).
138 =item B<DPKG_ADMINDIR>
140 If set and the B<--admindir> option has not been specified, it will
141 be used as the B<dpkg> data directory.
145 Sets the debug mask (since dpkg 1.21.10) from an octal value.
146 The currently accepted flags are described in the B<dpkg --debug> option,
147 but not all these flags might have an effect on this program.
151 Sets the color mode (since dpkg 1.18.5).
152 The currently accepted values are: B<auto> (default), B<always> and
161 B<%PKGDOCDIR%/spec/triggers.txt>.