dpkg/scripts/dpkg-name.1

.\" This is an -*- nroff -*- source file.
.\" dpkg-name and this manpage are Copyright 1995,1996 by Erick Branderhorst.
.\"
.\" This is free software; see the GNU General Public Licence version 2
.\" or later for copying conditions.  There is NO warranty.
.TH dpkg-name 1 "January 1996" "Debian Project" "Debian GNU/Linux"
.SH NAME
dpkg\-name \- rename Debian packages to full package names
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B dpkg\-name [\-h|\-\-help] [\-V|\-\-version] [\-L|\-\-license] [--] [files]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
This manual page documents the
.B dpkg\-name 
sh script which provides an easy way to rename
.B Debian
packages into their full package names. A full package name consists
of <package>-<version>[-<revision>].deb as specified in the control
file of the package.
.SH EXAMPLES
.TP
.B dpkg-name toedeledokie
The file `toedeledokie' will be renamed to emacs-19.29-4.deb or
something similar (depending on whatever information is in the control
part of `toedeledokie').
.TP
.B find /root/debian/ \-name '*.deb' | xargs dpkg\-name
All files with the extension `deb' in the directory /root/debian and
its subdirectory's will be renamed by dpkg\-name if required.
.SS OPTIONS
.TP
.B "\-h, \-\-help"
Print a usage message and exit successfully.
.TP
.B "\-v, \-\-version"
Print version information and exit successfully.
.TP
.B "\-l, \-\-license"
Print copyright information and (a reference to GNU) license
information and exit successfully.
.SH BUGS?
Successfully tested on
.B Debian GNU/Linux 
systems only. Some packages don't follow the name structure
<package>-<version>[-<revision>].deb. Packages renamed by dpkg-name
will follow this structure. Generally this will have no impact on how
packages are installed by dselect/dpkg.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR deb (5),
.BR deb-control (5),
.BR dpkg (5),
.BR dpkg (8),
.BR dpkg-deb (8).
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1995,1996 Erick Branderhorst.
.B dpkg-name
is free software; see the GNU General Public Licence version 2 or
later for copying conditions. There is
.B no
warranty.