Posts tagged ‘redhat’

building “schroot” on RHEL-5.4

“schroot” is a secure chroot tool that allows a non-privileged user on a system to switch to a chroot in a secure manner. This can be used to set up automated builds etc. that don’t have to run as root.

Unfortunately, RedHat Enterprise doesn’t ship with schroot-packages, so here’s a way to build them: Continue reading ‘building “schroot” on RHEL-5.4’ »

DPKG vs. RPM (part II)

list packages owning a file:

rpm -qf /bin/vi
dpkg -S /bin/vi

DPKG vs. RPM (part I)

lost in a rpm-based distribution?

list files containing “bin” in their path of an installed package:

rpm -ql postfix | grep bin
dpkg -L postfix | grep bin