NAME¶
dpkg-trigger - a package trigger utility
SYNOPSIS¶
dpkg-trigger [
option...]
trigger-name
dpkg-trigger [
option...]
command
DESCRIPTION¶
dpkg-trigger is a tool to explicitly activate triggers and check for its
support on the running
dpkg.
This can be used by maintainer scripts in complex and conditional situations
where the file triggers, or the declarative
activate triggers control
file directive, are insufficiently rich. It can also be used for testing and
by system administrators (but note that the triggers won't actually be run by
dpkg-trigger).
Unrecognized trigger name syntaxes are an error for
dpkg-trigger.
COMMANDS¶
- --check-supported
- Check if the running dpkg supports triggers (usually
called from a postinst). Will exit 0 if a triggers-capable
dpkg has run, or 1 with an error message to stderr if not.
Normally, however, it is better just to activate the desired trigger with
dpkg-trigger.
- -?, --help
- Show the usage message and exit.
- --version
- Show the version and exit.
OPTIONS¶
- --admindir=dir
- Change the location of the dpkg database. The
default location is /var/lib/dpkg.
- --by-package=package
- Override trigger awaiter (normally set by dpkg
through the DPKG_MAINTSCRIPT_PACKAGE environment variable of the
maintainer scripts, naming the package to which the script belongs, and
this will be used by default).
- --no-await
- This option arranges that the calling package T (if any)
need not await the processing of this trigger; the interested package(s)
I, will not be added to T's trigger processing awaited list and T's status
is unchanged. T may be considered installed even though I may not yet have
processed the trigger.
- --no-act
- Just test, do not actually change anything.
ENVIRONMENT¶
- DPKG_ADMINDIR
- If set and the --admindir option has not been
specified, it will be used as the dpkg data directory.
SEE ALSO¶
dpkg(1),
deb-triggers(5),
/usr/share/doc/dpkg-dev/triggers.txt.gz.