---
name: "distrib-info"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "util-vserver"
version: "0.30.212-1"
release: "Debian 4.0 (Etch)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/distrib-info"
---

# distrib-info(8)

A distribution independant utility to retrieve package information.

## NAME

distrib-info - A distribution independant utility to retrieve 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 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

  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 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

## AUTHORS

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

## SEE ALSO

vbuild(8) vfiles(8) vunify(8) newvserver(8)