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).

Debian Project                                     2012-04-15                                       dpkg-name(1)