Re: Best Way to Determine Package Versions

2013-11-20 Thread Doug Chang 
I look in bigtop.mk after uncompressing the source tarball or zip file
which corresponds to the version I am using.


On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 8:44 PM, Steven Núñez steven.nu...@illation.comwrote:

   Gents,

  What is the best way to determine the particular version of  a BigTop
 package? A command for this would be very useful. This particular use case
 involves trying out the Oozie component according to the Running Various
 BigTop 
 Componentshttps://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BIGTOP/Running+various+Bigtop+componentswiki
  page. The instructions for Oozie appear to be out of date, and the Oozie
 website http://oozie.apache.org has different configurations for
 different versions.

  It seems that the Oozie instructions on that page are particularly out
 of date.

  Regards,
 - SteveN

Re: Best Way to Determine Package Versions

2013-11-20 Thread Bruno Mahé 

On 11/20/2013 08:44 PM, Steven Núñez wrote:

Gents,

What is the best way to determine the particular version of  a BigTop
package? A command for this would be very useful. This particular use
case involves trying out the Oozie component according to the Running
Various BigTop Components
https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/BIGTOP/Running+various+Bigtop+components
wiki page. The instructions for Oozie appear to be out of date, and the
Oozie website http://oozie.apache.org has different configurations for
different versions.

It seems that the Oozie instructions on that page are particularly out
of date.

Regards,
- SteveN


I assume you are referring to an installed package

On a RPM based GNU/Linux distribution:
rpm -qi package name
rpm -qf file or directory

Note that you can also use yum (yum info, yum list).


for deb based distributions, I don't have one handy right now, but the 
following link should help you in that regard:

http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-pkgtools.en.html


Thanks,
Bruno