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Programmatically Retrieve RPM Package Details

This post shows you how to access various types of information in the RPM database and RPM package files using C and Python.

V8 JavaScript Engine on Fedora 14

This post shows you how to build the two V8 JavaScript shells on Fedora 14 and modify them to support shebang functionality. It also shows you how to modify the samples shell to support command line history.

Korn Shell 93 Hash Builtins

This post shows you how to incorporate hash functions built into the AT&T Advanced Software Technologies (AST) libsum library in your Korn shell shell scripts via custom builtins in a dynamically loadable plugin.

GRUB2 Modules

This post describes GRUB2 modules and shows you how to add functionality to existing modules or write you own custom module.

Hard Disk Metadata

This post demonstrates how to access hard disk metadata such as disk geometry, capacility, manufacturer, serial number, firmware revision, rotational speed, and partiitioning information using libparted and various ioctls and output the metadata in a number of formats.