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debconf-copydb(1) [debian man page]

DEBCONF-COPYDB(1)						      Debconf							 DEBCONF-COPYDB(1)

NAME

       debconf-copydb - copy a debconf database

SYNOPSIS

	debconf-copydb sourcedb destdb [--pattern=pattern] [--owner-pattern=pattern] [--config=Foo:bar]

DESCRIPTION

       debconf-copydb copies items from an existing debconf database into another, possibly new database. The two databases may have different
       formats; if so a conversion will automatically be done.

OPTIONS

       sourcedb
	   The name of the source database. Typically it will be defined in your debconf.conf (or .debconfrc) file.

       destdb
	   The name of the destination database. It may be defined in debconf.conf or .debconfrc, or you might define it on the command line (see
	   below).

       -p pattern, --pattern pattern
	   If this is specified, only items in sourcedb whose names match the pattern will be copied.

       --owner-pattern pattern
	   If this is specified, only items in sourcedb whose owners match the pattern will be copied.

       -c foo:bar, --config Foo:bar
	   Set option Foo to bar. This is similar to writing:

	     Foo: bar

	   In debconf.conf, except you probably want to leave off the space on the command line (or quote it: "Foo: bar"). Generally must be used
	   multiple times, to build up a full configuration stanza. While blank lines are used to separate stanzas in debconf.conf, this program
	   will assume that "Name:dbname" denotes the beginning of a new stanza.

EXAMPLES

	 debconf-copydb configdb backup

       Copy all of configdb to backup, assuming you already have the backup database defined in debconf.conf.

	 debconf-copydb configdb newdb --pattern='^slrn/' 
	       --config=Name:newdb --config=Driver:File 
	       --config=Filename:newdb.dat

       Copy slrn's data out of configdb, and into newdb. newdb is not defined in the rc file, so the --config switches set up the database on the
       fly.

	 debconf-copydb configdb stdout -c Name:stdout -c Driver:Pipe 
	       -c InFd:none --pattern='^foo/'

       Spit out all the items in the debconf database related to package foo.

	 debconf-copydb configdb pipe --config=Name:pipe 
		       --config=Driver:Pipe --config=InFd:none | 
	       ssh remotehost debconf-copydb pipe configdb 
		       --config=Name:pipe --config=Driver:Pipe

       This uses the special purpose pipe driver to copy a database to a remote system.

SEE ALSO

       debconf.conf(5)

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

								    2012-09-10							 DEBCONF-COPYDB(1)

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DH_INSTALLDEBCONF(1)                                                 Debhelper                                                DH_INSTALLDEBCONF(1)

NAME

       dh_installdebconf - install files used by debconf in package build directories

SYNOPSIS

       dh_installdebconf [debhelperoptions] [-n] [--params]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_installdebconf is a debhelper program that is responsible for installing files used by debconf into package build directories.

       It also automatically generates the postrm commands needed to interface with debconf. The commands are added to the maintainer scripts by
       dh_installdeb. See dh_installdeb(1) for an explanation of how that works.

       Note that if you use debconf, your package probably needs to depend on it (it will be added to ${misc:Depends} by this program).

       Note that for your config script to be called by dpkg, your postinst needs to source debconf's confmodule. dh_installdebconf does not
       install this statement into the postinst automatically as it is too hard to do it right.

FILES

       debian/package.config
           This is the debconf config script, and is installed into the DEBIAN directory in the package build directory.

           Inside the script, the token #DEBHELPER# is replaced with shell script snippets generated by other debhelper commands.

       debian/package.templates
           This is the debconf templates file, and is installed into the DEBIAN directory in the package build directory.

       debian/po/
           If this directory is present, this program will automatically use po2debconf(1) to generate merged templates files that include the
           translations from there.

           For this to work, your package should build-depend on po-debconf.

OPTIONS

       -n, --no-scripts
           Do not modify postrm script.

       -- params
           Pass the params to po2debconf.

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7)

       This program is a part of debhelper.

AUTHOR

       Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>

11.1.6ubuntu2                                                       2018-05-10                                                DH_INSTALLDEBCONF(1)
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