distrib-info(8)

1distrib-info(8)              System Administration             distrib-info(8)
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NAME

6       distrib-info  -  A distribution independant utility to retrieve package
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SYNTAX

10       distrib-info vserver-name command [options]
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DESCRIPTION

14       distrib-info - This utility provides a solution to  hide  some  differ‐
15       ences  between  Linux  distributions.  The  various  utilities (vunify,
16       vbuild, ...)  need package information to perform their task. They call
17       distrib-info to retrieve this information. distrib-info is the only one
18       understanding the various distribution out there.
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20       This utility is only used as a back-end for other utilities such as
21              vunify and vbuild.
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OPTIONS

24       dumpfiles reports all files owned by a package.
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26       pkgversion reports all packages and version.
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28       unifiles reports the files of a package which may be shared by
29              several virtual servers. Generally, this excludes all configura‐
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EXAMPLES

34       The  following  command  will report all packages in the vserver ref80.
35       The package will be presented with the version/release.
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37            distrib-info ref80 pkgversion
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39       To get the list of unify-able (sharable) file in  package  sendmail  of
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42            distrib-info ref80 unifiles sendmail
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FILES

45            /usr/lib/vservers/distrib-info
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AUTHORS

48       This Man page was written by Jacques Gelinas <jack@solucorp.qc.ca>.
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