distrib-info(8)
NAME
- distrib-info - A distribution independant utility to re
- trieve package information.
SYNTAX
distrib-info vserver-name command [options]
DESCRIPTION
- distrib-info - This utility provides a solution to hide
- some differences between Linux distributions. The various utili
- ties (vunify, vbuild, ...) need package information to perform
- their task. They call distrib-info to retrieve this information.
- distrib-info is the only one understanding the various distribu
- tion out there.
- This utility is only used as a back-end for other utili
- ties such as
- vunify and vbuild.
OPTIONS
dumpfiles reports all files owned by a package.
pkgversion reports all packages and version.
- unifiles reports the files of a package which may be
- shared by
- several virtual servers. Generally, this excludes
- all configuration files.
EXAMPLES
- The following command will report all packages in the
- vserver ref80. The package will be presented with the ver
- sion/release.
distrib-info ref80 pkgversion- To get the list of unify-able (sharable) file in package
- sendmail of the vserver ref80, we do
distrib-info ref80 unifiles sendmail
FILES
/usr/lib/vservers/distrib-info
AUTHORS
- This Man page was written by Jacques Gelinas <jack@solu
- corp.qc.ca>.
SEE ALSO
- vbuild(8) vfiles(8) vunify(8) newvserver(8)
- Jacques Gelinas <jack@solucorp.qc.ca>0.1.0