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NAME
dpkg-repack - put an unpacked .deb file back together
SYNOPSIS
dpkg-repack [option...] package-name...
DESCRIPTION
dpkg-repack creates a .deb file out of a Debian package that has
already been installed on your system.
If any changes have been made to the package while it was unpacked
(e.g. conffiles files in /etc modified), the new package will inherit
the changes. (There are exceptions to this, including changes to
configuration files that are not conffiles, including those managed by
ucf(1).)
This utility can make it easy to copy packages from one computer to
another, or to recreate packages that are installed on your system, but
no longer available elsewhere.
Note: dpkg-repack will place the created package in the current
directory.
OPTIONS
--root=dir
Take package from filesystem rooted on dir. This is useful if, for
example, you have another computer NFS mounted on /mnt, then you
can use --root=/mnt to reassemble packages from that computer.
--arch=architecture
Make the package be for a specific architecture. dpkg-repack might
not be able to tell if an installed package is architecture all or
is specific to the system's architecture, in case it lacks the
Architecture field. If you know the package architecture, you can
use this option to force dpkg-repack to use the right architecture.
-d, --deb-option=option
Pass option as build argument to dpkg-deb. This option can be
specified multiple times.
--generate
Generate a temporary directory suitable for building a package
from, but do not actually create the package. This is useful if you
want to move files around in the package before building it. The
package can be built from this temporary directory by running
"dpkg-deb --build dir ." as root (or by using fakeroot -u), where
dir is the generated directory.
--tag=thing[,...]
Specify a comma-separated list of things to tag in the package as
having been repackaged. The current list of things to tag is:
none
Tag nothing. This can be specified first to be augmented by more
specific things.
description
Append a timestamped "Repackaged by dpkg-repack" tagline to the
package's control file Description field. This tag is enabled by
default.
version
Append a "+repack" tag to the package version.
all
Tag everything.
package-name
The name of the package to attempt to repack. Multiple packages can
be listed.
BUGS
There is a tricky situation that can occur if you dpkg-repack a package
that has modified conffiles. The modified conffiles are packed up. Now
if you install the package, dpkg(1) does not realize that the conffiles
in it are modified. So if you later upgrade to a new version of the
package, dpkg(1) will believe that the old (repacked) package has older
conffiles than the new version, and will silently replace the conffiles
with those in the package you are upgrading to.
While dpkg-repack can be run under fakeroot(1) and will work most of
the time, fakeroot -u must be used if any of the files to be repacked
are owned by non-root users. Otherwise the package will have them owned
by root. dpkg-repack will warn if you run it under fakeroot(1) without
the -u flag.
SEE ALSO
dpkg(1), dpkg-deb(1), fakeroot(1).
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