1 # dpkg manual page - dpkg-name(1)
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23 dpkg-name - rename Debian packages to full package names
34 This manual page documents the
36 program which provides an easy way to rename
38 packages into their full package names.
39 A full package name consists of
40 I<package>B<_>I<version>B<_>I<architecture>B<.>I<package-type>
41 as specified in the control file of the package.
44 consists of the upstream version information optionally followed by a
45 hyphen and the revision information.
46 The I<package-type> part comes
47 from that field if present or fallbacks to B<deb>.
53 =item B<-a>, B<--no-architecture>
55 The destination filename will not have the architecture information.
57 =item B<-k>, B<--symlink>
59 Create a symlink, instead of moving.
61 =item B<-o>, B<--overwrite>
63 Existing files will be overwritten if they have the same name as the
66 =item B<-s>, B<--subdir> [I<dir>]
68 Files will be moved into a subdirectory.
69 If the directory given as argument exists
70 the files will be moved into that directory otherwise the name of
71 the target directory is extracted from the section field in the
72 control part of the package.
73 The target directory will be
74 «unstable/binary-I<architecture>/I<section>».
75 If the section is not found in the control, then B<no-section> is assumed,
76 and in this case, as well as for sections B<non-free> and B<contrib>
77 the target directory is «I<section>/binary-I<architecture>».
78 The section field is not required so a lot of packages will find their way
79 to the B<no-section> area.
81 B<Warning>: Use this option with care, it is messy.
83 =item B<-c>, B<--create-dir>
85 This option can used together with the B<-s> option.
87 directory isn't found it will be created automatically.
89 B<Warning>: Use this option with care.
91 =item B<-?>, B<--help>
93 Show the usage message and exit.
95 =item B<-v>, B<--version>
97 Show the version and exit.
107 Sets the color mode (since dpkg 1.18.5).
108 The currently accepted values are: B<auto> (default), B<always> and
113 If set, it will be used to decide whether to activate Native Language Support,
114 also known as internationalization (or i18n) support (since dpkg 1.19.0).
115 The accepted values are: B<0> and B<1> (default).
121 Some packages don't follow the name structure
122 I<package>B<_>I<version>B<_>I<architecture>B<.deb>.
123 Packages renamed by B<dpkg-name>
124 will follow this structure.
125 Generally this will have no impact on how
126 packages are installed by
127 L<dselect(1)>/L<dpkg(1)>,
128 but other installation tools
129 might depend on this naming structure.
135 =item B<dpkg-name bar-foo.deb>
137 The file B<bar-foo.deb> will be renamed to bar-foo_1.0-2_i386.deb or
138 something similar (depending on whatever information is in the control
139 part of B<bar-foo.deb>).
141 =item B<find /root/debian/ -name '*.deb' | xargs -n 1 dpkg-name -a>
143 All files with the extension B<deb> in the directory /root/debian and its
144 subdirectory's will be renamed by B<dpkg-name> if required into names
145 with no architecture information.
147 =item B<find -name '*.deb' | xargs -n 1 dpkg-name -a -o -s -c>
150 Your archive will be messed up completely because a lot of packages
151 don't come with section information.
154 =item B<dpkg-deb --build debian-tmp && dpkg-name -o -s .. debian-tmp.deb>
156 This can be used when building new packages.