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1 | .\" dpkg manual page - deb-override(5) |
| 2 | .\" | |
| 3 | .\" Copyright © 1996 Michael Shields <shields@crosslink.net> | |
| 4 | .\" Copyright © 2010 Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> | |
| 5 | .\" | |
| 6 | .\" This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
| 7 | .\" it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
| 8 | .\" the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or | |
| 9 | .\" (at your option) any later version. | |
| 10 | .\" | |
| 11 | .\" This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
| 12 | .\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
| 13 | .\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
| 14 | .\" GNU General Public License for more details. | |
| 15 | .\" | |
| 16 | .\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
| 17 | .\" along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. | |
| 18 | . | |
| 19 | .TH deb\-override 5 "%RELEASE_DATE%" "%VERSION%" "dpkg suite" | |
| 20 | .nh | |
| 21 | .SH NAME | |
| 22 | deb\-override \- Debian archive override file | |
| 23 | . | |
| 24 | .SH SYNOPSIS | |
| 25 | override | |
| 26 | . | |
| 27 | .SH DESCRIPTION | |
| 28 | While most information about a package can be found in the control file, | |
| 29 | some is managed centrally by the distribution czars rather than by the | |
| 30 | maintainer in order to offer some global consistency. | |
| 31 | This information is found in the override file. | |
| 32 | .PP | |
| 33 | The override file has a simple whitespace-delimited format. Comments are | |
| 34 | allowed (denoted with a | |
| 35 | .BR # ). | |
| 36 | .PP | |
| 37 | .in +5 | |
| 38 | .I package | |
| 39 | .I priority | |
| 40 | .I section | |
| 41 | .RI [ maintainerinfo ] | |
| 42 | .in -5 | |
| 43 | .PP | |
| 44 | .I package | |
| 45 | is the name of the package. Entries in the override file for packages | |
| 46 | not found in the tree of binary packages are ignored. | |
| 47 | .PP | |
| 48 | .I priority | |
| 49 | and | |
| 50 | .I section | |
| 51 | correspond to the respective control fields available in the .deb. The | |
| 52 | allowed values are specific to each distribution archive. | |
| 53 | .PP | |
| 54 | .IR maintainerinfo , | |
| 55 | if present, can be either the name of a maintainer for an unconditional | |
| 56 | override, or else | |
| 57 | .I oldmaintainer | |
| 58 | .B => | |
| 59 | .I newmaintainer | |
| 60 | to perform a substitution. | |
| 61 | .PP | |
| 62 | The override files used to make the official Packages lists may be found | |
| 63 | in the | |
| 64 | .I indices | |
| 65 | directory on any Debian mirror. | |
| 66 | . | |
| 67 | .SH SEE ALSO | |
| 68 | .ad l | |
| 69 | .BR dpkg\-scanpackages (1), | |
| 70 | .BR dpkg\-scansources (1), | |
| 71 | .BR apt\-ftparchive (1). |