Section 5: file formats
deb-origin – Vendor-specific information files Synopsis /etc/dpkg/origins/filename Description The files in /etc/dpkg/origins can provide information about various vendors who are providing Debian packages. They contain a number of fields, or comments when the line starts with ‘#‘. Each field begins with a tag, such as Vendor or Parent, followed by a colon and the body…
deb-old – old style Debian binary package format Synopsis filename.deb Description The .deb format is the Debian binary package file format. This manual page describes the old format, used before Debian 0.93. Please see deb(5) for details of the new format. Format The file is two lines of format information as ASCII text, followed by…
deb-md5sums – package MD5 file digests Synopsis DEBIAN/md5sums Description A package declares the MD5 digests for the package file contents by including an md5sums file in its control archive (i.e. DEBIAN/md5sums during package creation). This file is used for integrity verification and deduplication purposes, and not for any kind of security purpose. This file contains…
deb-extra-override – Debian archive extra override file Synopsis override Description While most information about a binary/source package can be found in the control/.dsc file, all of it can be overridden when it’s exported to Packages/Sources files. The extra override file contains those overrides. The extra override file has a simple whitespace-delimited format. Comments are allowed…
deb-control – Debian binary packages’ master control file format Synopsis DEBIAN/control Description Each Debian binary package contains a control file in its control member, and its deb822(5) format is a subset of the master debian/control file in Debian source packages, see deb-src-control(5). This file contains a number of fields. Each field begins with a tag,…
deb-conffiles – package conffiles Synopsis DEBIAN/conffiles Description A package declares its list of conffiles by including a conffiles file in its control archive (i.e. DEBIAN/conffiles during package creation). This file contains a list of files, one per line, with an optional leading flag separated by whitespace. The conffiles must be listed as absolute pathnames. Trailing…
deb-changes – Debian changes file format Synopsis filename.changes Description Each Debian upload is composed of a .changes control file, which contains a number of fields in deb822(5) format. Each field begins with a tag, such as Source or Binary (case insensitive), followed by a colon, and the body of the field (case sensitive unless stated…
deb-changelog – dpkg source packages’ changelog file format Synopsis debian/changelog Description Changes in the packaged version of a project are explained in the changelog file debian/changelog. This includes modifications made in the source package compared to the upstream one as well as other changes and updates to the package. The format of the debian/changelog allows…
deb-buildinfo – Debian build information file format Synopsis filename.buildinfo Description Each Debian source package build can record the build information in a .buildinfo control file, which contains a number of fields in deb822(5) format. Each field begins with a tag, such as Source or Binary (case insensitive), followed by a colon, and the body of…
ddupdate.conf – ddupdate configuration file. Synopsis The ddupdate.conf file holds default values for all ddupdate(8) options. Since ddupdate normally is invoked without command line parameters, this file then represents the used option values. File Format The file is formatted according to the rules use by the python3 configparser module. Basically, this is a leading [update]…
davfs2.conf – Configuration file for mount.davfs Description There is a system wide configuration file /etc/davfs2/davfs2.conf and user configuration files ~/.davfs2/davfs2.conf. When mount.davfs is invoked by root, only the system wide configuration file is read. When invoked by an ordinary user, the user configuration file is read in addition. Settings from the user configuration file will…
dat.conf – configuration file for static registration of user-level DAT rdma providers Description The DAT (direct access transport) architecture supports the use of multiple DAT providers within a single consumer application. Consumers implicitly select a provider using the Interface Adapter name parameter passed to dat_ia_open(). The subsystem that maps Interface Adapter names to provider implementations…
* Name cyrus.conf – Cyrus configuration file Description /etc/cyrus.conf is the configuration file for the Cyrus master process. It defines the startup procedures, services and events to be spawned by master. The /etc/cyrus.conf file consists of a series of entries divided into sections of the form section { name arguments … … … } where…
cycbuff.conf – Configuration file for INN CNFS storage method Description This file defines the cyclical buffers that make up the storage pools for CNFS (Cyclic News File System). Some options controlling the behavior of the CNFS storage system can also be set here. cycbuff.conf is required if the CNFS (Cyclic News File System) storage method…
cycbuff.conf – Configuration file for INN CNFS storage method Description This file defines the cyclical buffers that make up the storage pools for CNFS (Cyclic News File System). Some options controlling the behavior of the CNFS storage system can also be set here. cycbuff.conf is required if the CNFS (Cyclic News File System) storage method…
cvsgraph.conf – CVS/RCS repository grapher configuration Overview The configuration file is a context free grammar where empty lines and whitespace are ignored. Comments start with ‘#’ and everything until end of line is ignored. A configuration parameter is written as: <keyword> = <argument> ; Keywords are defined in PARAMETERS. The argument can be either numerical…
cvs.sh – Bourne shell log-in script for CVS users Synopsis /etc/profile.d/cvs.sh Description The cvs.sh script is sourced when a user of a Bourne log-in shell is logged in. The purpose is to set CVS_RSH environment variable, so that a cvs user connecting to a remote CVS server utilizes SSH-secured connection by default. Example export CVS_RSH=${CVS_RSH-ssh}…
cvs – Concurrent Versions System support files Note This documentation may no longer be up to date. Please consult the Cederqvist (CVS Manual) as specified in cvs(1). Synopsis $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/commitinfo,v $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cvsignore,v $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/cvswrappers,v $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/editinfo,v $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/history $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/loginfo,v $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/modules,v $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/rcsinfo,v $CVSROOT/CVSROOT/taginfo,v Description cvs is a system for providing source control to hierarchical collections of source directories. Commands and procedures…
cvs.sh – C shell log-in script for CVS users Synopsis /etc/profile.d/cvs.csh Description The cvs.csh script is sourced when a user of a C log-in shell is logged in. The purpose is to set CVS_RSH environment variable, so that a cvs user connecting to a remote CVS server utilizes SSH-secured connection by default. Example if (…
customizable_types – The SELinux customizable types configuration file Description The customizable_types file contains a list of types that can be customised in some way by SELinux-aware applications. Generally this is a file context type that is usually set on files that need to be shared among certain domains and where the administrator wants to manually…