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DPKG-REPACK

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SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

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 different architecture. dpkg-repack cannot tell if an installed package is architecture all or is specific to the system's architecture, so by default it uses dpkg --print-architecture to determine the build architecture. If you know the package is architecture all, you can use this option to force dpkg-repack to use the right architecture.

packagename

The name of the package to attempt to repack. Multiple packages can be listed.

BUGS

This program accesses the dpkg database directly in places, querying for data that cannot be gotten via dpkg.

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 does not realize that the conffiles in it are modified. So if you later upgrade to a new version of the package, dpkg will belive 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.

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