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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 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 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 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.
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.
SEE ALSO
deb(5), deb-control(5), dpkg(1), dpkg-deb(1), find(1), xargs(1).