dpkg-name
rename Debian packages to full package names
see also :
dpkg - dpkg-deb - find - xargs
Synopsis
dpkg-name
[option...] [--]
file...
add an example, a script, a trick and tips
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
control 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.
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 otherwise 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 isn’t 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 directory 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.
bugs
Some packages
don’t follow the name structure
package_version_architecture.deb.
Packages renamed by dpkg-name will follow this
structure. Generally this will have no impact on how
packages are installed by dselect(1)/dpkg(1),
but other installation tools might depend on this naming
structure.
see also
deb,
deb-control, dpkg ,
dpkg-deb , find ,
xargs .