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1<!-- -*- mode: sgml; mode: fold -*- -->
2<!doctype refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V3.1//EN" [
3
4<!ENTITY % aptent SYSTEM "apt.ent">
5%aptent;
6
7]>
8
9<refentry>
10 &apt-docinfo;
11
12 <refmeta>
13 <refentrytitle>apt-extracttemplates</>
14 <manvolnum>1</>
15 </refmeta>
16
17 <!-- Man page title -->
18 <refnamediv>
19 <refname>apt-extracttemplates</>
20 <refpurpose>Utility to extract DebConf config and templates from Debian packages</>
21 </refnamediv>
22
23 <!-- Arguments -->
24 <refsynopsisdiv>
25 <cmdsynopsis>
7c4d986b 26 <command>apt-extracttemplates</>
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27 <arg><option>-hv</></arg>
28 <arg><option>-t=<replaceable/temporary directory/</></arg>
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29 <arg choice="plain" rep="repeat"><replaceable>file</replaceable></arg>
30 </cmdsynopsis>
31 </refsynopsisdiv>
32
33 <RefSect1><Title>Description</>
34 <para>
35 <command/apt-extracttemplates/ will take one or more Debian package files
36 as input and write out (to a temporary directory) all associated config
37 scripts and template files. For each passed in package that contains
38 config scripts and templates, one line of output will be generated
39 in the format:
40 <para>
41 package version template-file config-script
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42 <para>
43 template-file and config-script are written to the temporary directory
b2913a19 44 specified by the -t or --tempdir (<literal>APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir</>)
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45 directory, with filenames of the form <filename>package.template.XXXX</> and
46 <filename>package.config.XXXX</>
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47 </RefSect1>
48
49 <RefSect1><Title>Options</>
50 &apt-cmdblurb;
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51
52 <VariableList>
53 <VarListEntry><term><option/-t/</><term><option/--tempdir/</>
54 <ListItem><Para>
55 Temporary directory in which to write extracted debconf template files
56 and config scripts
a5b7cd82 57 Configuration Item: <literal/APT::ExtractTemplates::TempDir/.
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58 </VarListEntry>
59
60 &apt-commonoptions;
61
62 </VariableList>
63
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64
65 </RefSect1>
66
67 <RefSect1><Title>See Also</>
68 <para>
69 &apt-conf;
70 </RefSect1>
71
72 <RefSect1><Title>Diagnostics</>
73 <para>
dfbeb472 74 <command/apt-extracttemplates/ returns zero on normal operation, decimal 100 on error.
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75 </RefSect1>
76
77 &manbugs;
78 &manauthor;
79
80</refentry>