Get Appliance Info

From Proxmox VE
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Introduction

All OpenVZ appliance templates created with Debian Appliance Builder will have the dab.conf file embedded in them as ./etc/appliance.info - the leading ./ is important as that is the way it has been archived.

A concatenation of all such appliance.info files separated by atleast 1 newline each along with Location and md5sum lines and removal of the Architecture, Installed-Size and Source lines is what essentially makes up the content of the /var/lib/pve-manager/apl-info/apl-available file (in PVE v1.x, the apl-info folder is not present and hence removed from the path listed here).

Linux file extraction from tar.gz archive

The following will serve as a tutorial on linux tar file creation and selective extraction and concatenation.