Information about the package, gfal, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The gfal package is designed for, Grid File access library.
Package Name:
gfal
Summary:
Grid File access library
Description:
The Grid File Access Library offers a POSIX interface to Replica Catalogs, Storage Resource Managers and File Access services using protocols like rfio, dcap. This Library is now deprecated in favor of gfal2
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.16.0
Release:
1.el6
Size:
121 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
ASL 2.0
Control the gfal package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install gfal
This command will install gfal on the server.
yum remove gfal
This command will un-install gfal on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gfal, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove gfal
This command will un-install gfal 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 gfal when using the -y flag.
yum update gfal
This command will update gfal to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gfal, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update gfal
This command will update gfal 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 gfal when using the -y flag.
yum info gfal
This command will show you core information about the gfal package.
yum deplist gfal
This command will show you the dependencies for gfal. 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 gfal
This command will check if there is an update waiting on gfal. 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.