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