libcap

Maintainers

• The Core Planners: chef-core-planners@chef.io

Type of Package

Binary package

Use as Dependency

Binary packages can be set as runtime or build time dependencies. See Defining your dependencies for more information.

To add core/libcap as a depdendency, you can add one of the following to your plan file.

Buildtime Dependency

pkg_build_deps=(core/libcap)

Runtime Depdendency

pkg_deps=(core/libcap)

Use as Tool

Installation

To install this plan, you should run the following commands to first install, and then link the binaries this plan creates.

hab pkg install core/libcap

» Installing core/libcap

☁ Determining latest version of core/libcap in the 'stable' channel

→ Using core/libcap/2.27/20200305230759

★ Install of core/libcap/2.27/20200305230759 complete with 0 new packages installed.

hab pkg binlink core/libcap

» Binlinking setcap from core/libcap/2.27/20200305230759 into /bin

★ Binlinked setcap from core/libcap/2.27/20200305230759 to /bin/setcap

...

Using an example binary

You can now use the binary as normal:

/bin/capsh --help or capsh --help

usage: capsh [args ...]
  --help         this message (or try 'man capsh')
  --print        display capability relevant state
  --decode=xxx   decode a hex string to a list of caps
  --supports=xxx exit 1 if capability xxx unsupported
  --drop=xxx     remove xxx,.. capabilities from bset
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