Information about the package, compat-opensm-libs, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The compat-opensm-libs package is designed for, Back compatability libraries for the IB management stack.
Package Name:
compat-opensm-libs
Summary:
Back compatability libraries for the IB management stack
Description:
The libibumad and opensm packages provide libraries for use on the system. As those libraries have changed version, this compat package provides the older version of the libraries so that packages or user applications will not need to be recompiled against the newer libraries unnecessarily.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.3.5
Release:
3.el6
Size:
32 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2 or BSD
Control the compat-opensm-libs package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install compat-opensm-libs
This command will install compat-opensm-libs on the server.
yum remove compat-opensm-libs
This command will un-install compat-opensm-libs on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove compat-opensm-libs, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove compat-opensm-libs
This command will un-install compat-opensm-libs 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-opensm-libs when using the -y flag.
yum update compat-opensm-libs
This command will update compat-opensm-libs to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove compat-opensm-libs, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update compat-opensm-libs
This command will update compat-opensm-libs 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-opensm-libs when using the -y flag.
yum info compat-opensm-libs
This command will show you core information about the compat-opensm-libs package.
yum deplist compat-opensm-libs
This command will show you the dependencies for compat-opensm-libs. 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-opensm-libs
This command will check if there is an update waiting on compat-opensm-libs. 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.