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Woodchuck
Woodchuck

Reputation: 4474

Karaf Commands to List Bundles

What is the difference in Karaf between the commands list and la?

My understanding is that both represent the command bundle:list ("Lists all installed bundles"). That's based on the results I see when I issue either the command list --help or la --help. In both cases, the help info provided in the console describes the bundle:list command.

However, these 2 commands (list and la) in fact do not yield the same results: when I issue the list command I'm shown a list of several bundles (14 actually in my current Karaf instance), all of which are in the Active state; but when I issue the la command I get a far longer list (137), most of which are in the Active state, but some of which show as Resolved.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 8172

Answers (1)

Achim Nierbeck
Achim Nierbeck

Reputation: 5285

bundle:list gives you all bundles with a start level higher or equal to 50, while la is an alias to bundle:list -t 0 (list all). This is done because a lot of Karaf internal bundles are having a start level lower than 50, while all bundles being installed via bundle:deploy or by placing in the deploy folder automatically have start level 80.

Also, bundles being installed by means of features are usually deployed with start level 80, unless defined otherwise.

The difference between the Active and Resolved states is because Bundles can be Active while fragments can only be Resolved.

edit

Just issuing the bundle:list command will give you the following output: 

karaf@root()> list
START LEVEL 100 , List Threshold: 50
ID | State | Lvl | Version | Name
---------------------------------

As can be seen, the Threshold is 50 and given.

Upvotes: 4

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