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dpkg-vendor(1) dpkg suite dpkg-vendor(1)
dpkg-vendor - queries information about distribution vendors
dpkg-vendor [option...] command
dpkg-vendor is a tool to query information about vendors listed in
/usr/local/etc/dpkg/origins. /usr/local/etc/dpkg/origins/default
contains information about the current vendor.
The origin files provide metadata about specific vendors, such as
their URL or where to file bug reports, and are usually used both
to determine the behavior of tools and resulting contents during
package builds targeting a specific vendor, and to describe the
provenance of packages.
Packages can explicitly declare their vendor by including an
Origin field, otherwise the vendor for a package without such
field is assumed to be the one pointed to by the default origin
symbolic link.
The default symbolic link is also used to denote the origin of the
current installation managed by dpkg, be that a full distribution
or an overlay on top of an existing base system that contains
either no packaging system or a native one.
This program was introduced in dpkg 1.15.1.
--is vendor
Exits with 0 if the current vendor is vendor. Otherwise exits
with 1.
--derives-from vendor
Exits with 0 if the current vendor distribution is a
derivative of vendor, otherwise exits with 1. It uses the
Parent field to browse all ancestors of the current vendor.
--query field
Print on standard output the value of the vendor-specific
field for the current vendor.
--help
Show the usage message and exit.
--version
Show the version and exit.
--vendor vendor
Assumes the current vendor is vendor instead of discovering it
with the DEB_VENDOR environment variable or
/usr/local/etc/dpkg/origins/default.
DEB_VENDOR
This setting defines the current vendor. If not set, it will
discover the current vendor by reading
/usr/local/etc/dpkg/origins/default.
DPKG_COLORS
Sets the color mode (since dpkg 1.18.5). The currently
accepted values are: auto (default), always and never.
DPKG_NLS
If set, it will be used to decide whether to activate Native
Language Support, also known as internationalization (or i18n)
support (since dpkg 1.19.0). The accepted values are: 0 and 1
(default).
Packaging support
/usr/local/share/dpkg/vendor.mk
Makefile snippet that sets the current vendor and its parent
into variables, and provides make macros to check for
derivatives (since dpkg 1.16.1).
deb-origin(5).
This page is part of the dpkg (Debian Package Manager) project.
Information about the project can be found at
⟨https://wiki.debian.org/Teams/Dpkg/⟩. If you have a bug report
for this manual page, see
⟨http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?src=dpkg⟩. This
page was obtained from the project's upstream Git repository ⟨git
clone https://git.dpkg.org/git/dpkg/dpkg.git⟩ on 2025-08-11. (At
that time, the date of the most recent commit that was found in
the repository was 2025-08-06.) If you discover any rendering
problems in this HTML version of the page, or you believe there is
a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or you have
corrections or improvements to the information in this COLOPHON
(which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail to
man-pages@man7.org
1.22.19-74-gf1ca0 2025-05-18 dpkg-vendor(1)
Pages that refer to this page: deb-origin(5), deb-src-rules(5), deb-substvars(5)
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