Information about the package, dracut-fips, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The dracut-fips package is designed for, Dracut modules to build a dracut initramfs with an integrity check.
Package Name:
dracut-fips
Summary:
Dracut modules to build a dracut initramfs with an integrity check
Description:
This package requires everything which is needed to build an all purpose initramfs with dracut, which does an integrity check.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
004
Release:
409.el6_8.2
Size:
38 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the dracut-fips package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install dracut-fips
This command will install dracut-fips on the server.
yum remove dracut-fips
This command will un-install dracut-fips on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dracut-fips, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove dracut-fips
This command will un-install dracut-fips 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 dracut-fips when using the -y flag.
yum update dracut-fips
This command will update dracut-fips to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dracut-fips, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update dracut-fips
This command will update dracut-fips 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 dracut-fips when using the -y flag.
yum info dracut-fips
This command will show you core information about the dracut-fips package.
yum deplist dracut-fips
This command will show you the dependencies for dracut-fips. 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 dracut-fips
This command will check if there is an update waiting on dracut-fips. 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.