dh_installtmpfiles(1) — Linux manual page

DH_INSTALLTMPFILES(1)           Debhelper          DH_INSTALLTMPFILES(1)

NAME

       dh_installtmpfiles - install tmpfiles.d configuration files

SYNOPSIS

       dh_installtmpfiles [debhelper options][--name=name]

DESCRIPTION

       dh_installtmpfiles is a debhelper program that is responsible for
       installing package maintainer supplied tmpfiles.d configuration
       files (e.g. for systemd-tmpfiles).

       It also finds the tmpfiles.d configuration files installed by a
       package and generates postinst code blocks for activating the
       tmpfiles.d configuration when the package is installed. These
       snippets are added to the maintainer scripts by dh_installdeb(1).

       In compat 14+, tmpfiles.d files are copied into the postrm
       script, and they are used with systemd-tmpfiles --remove after
       the package is removed and --purge when the package is purged.
       This allows one to use the tmpfiles.d mechanism to clean up files
       that are no longer needed after a package has been
       removed/purged.

OPTIONS

       --name=name
           This option controls both a prefix used for looking up
           maintainer provided tmpfiles.d configuration files (those
           mentioned in the "FILES" section) and also the base name used
           for the installed version of the file.

FILES

       debian/package.tmpfiles
           If this exists, it is installed into usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/ in
           the package build directory. Note that the "tmpfiles.d"
           mechanism is currently only used by systemd.

       debian/package.tmpfile
           Deprecated name for debian/package.tmpfiles.

NOTES

       This command is not idempotent. dh_prep(1) should be called
       between invocations of this command (with the same arguments).
       Otherwise, it may cause multiple instances of the same text to be
       added to maintainer scripts.

SEE ALSO

       debhelper(7)

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