dpkg-name - rename Debian packages to full package names
dpkg-name [option...] [--] file...
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.
- -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.
Warning: Use this option with care, it is
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.
Warning: Use this option with care.
- -?, --help
- Show the usage message and exit.
- -v, --version
- Show the version and exit.
- DPKG_COLORS
- Sets the color mode (since dpkg 1.18.5). The currently accepted values
are: auto (default), always and never.
- DPKG_NLS
- If set, it will be used to decide whether to activate Native Language
Support, also known as internationalization (or i18n) support (since dpkg
1.19.0). The accepted values are: 0 and 1 (default).
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.