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The libcap-ng library is intended to make programming with POSIX capabilities much easier than the traditional libcap library. It includes utilities that can analyse all currently running applications and print out any capabilities and whether or not it has an open ended bounding set.

Homepage:

https://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/libcap-ng/

License:

GPL-2+ LGPL-2.1+

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Description

• The libcap-ng library is intended to make programming with POSIX capabilities much easier than the traditional libcap library. It includes utilities that can analyse all currently running applications and print out any capabilities and whether or not it has an open ended bounding set.

Maintainers

• Gentoo Base System (base-system@gentoo.org) - Type: project

Upstream

• Remote IDs:
  • cpe: cpe:/a:libcap-ng_project:libcap-ng
  • github: stevegrubb/libcap-ng

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	<maintainer type="project">
		<email>base-system@gentoo.org</email>
		<name>Gentoo Base System</name>
	</maintainer>
	<longdescription>
	The libcap-ng library is intended to make programming with POSIX
	capabilities much easier than the traditional libcap library. It includes
	utilities that can analyse all currently running applications and print
	out any capabilities and whether or not it has an open ended bounding set.
	</longdescription>
	<upstream>
		<remote-id type="cpe">cpe:/a:libcap-ng_project:libcap-ng</remote-id>
		<remote-id type="github">stevegrubb/libcap-ng</remote-id>
	</upstream>
</pkgmetadata>

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Files

• libcap-ng-0.8.5-python.patch

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