distrib-info8
A distribution independant utility to retrieve package information.
Usage
distrib-info vserver-name
command
[options]
Overview
distrib-info - This utility provides a solution to hide some differences between Linux distributions. The various utilities (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 distribution out there.
- This utility is only used as a back-end for other utilities such as
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vunify and vbuild.
Options
dumpfilesreports all files owned by a package.
pkgversionreports all packages and version.
unifilesreports 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 version/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
Releases
Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).