Information about the package, compat-dapl, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The compat-dapl package is designed for, Library providing access to the DAT 1.2 API.
Package Name:
compat-dapl
Summary:
Library providing access to the DAT 1.2 API
Description:
The DAT programming API provides a means of utilizing high performance network technologies, such as InfiniBand and iWARP, without needing to write your program to use those technologies directy. This package contains the libraries that implement version 1.2 of the DAT API. The current (and recommended version for any new code) is 2.0. These 1.2 libraries are provided solely for backward compatibily.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.2.19
Release:
2.el6
Size:
98 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2 or BSD or CPL
Control the compat-dapl package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install compat-dapl
This command will install compat-dapl on the server.
yum remove compat-dapl
This command will un-install compat-dapl on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove compat-dapl, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove compat-dapl
This command will un-install compat-dapl on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove compat-dapl when using the -y flag.
yum update compat-dapl
This command will update compat-dapl to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove compat-dapl, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update compat-dapl
This command will update compat-dapl to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove compat-dapl when using the -y flag.
yum info compat-dapl
This command will show you core information about the compat-dapl package.
yum deplist compat-dapl
This command will show you the dependencies for compat-dapl. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update compat-dapl
This command will check if there is an update waiting on compat-dapl. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.