Information about the package, heat-cfntools, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The heat-cfntools package is designed for, Tools required to be installed on Heat provisioned cloud instances.
Package Name:
heat-cfntools
Summary:
Tools required to be installed on Heat provisioned cloud instances
Description:
Tools required to be installed on Heat provisioned cloud instances
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
1.2.6
Release:
4.el6
Size:
112 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
ASL 2.0
Control the heat-cfntools package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install heat-cfntools
This command will install heat-cfntools on the server.
yum remove heat-cfntools
This command will un-install heat-cfntools on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove heat-cfntools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove heat-cfntools
This command will un-install heat-cfntools 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 heat-cfntools when using the -y flag.
yum update heat-cfntools
This command will update heat-cfntools to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove heat-cfntools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update heat-cfntools
This command will update heat-cfntools 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 heat-cfntools when using the -y flag.
yum info heat-cfntools
This command will show you core information about the heat-cfntools package.
yum deplist heat-cfntools
This command will show you the dependencies for heat-cfntools. 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 heat-cfntools
This command will check if there is an update waiting on heat-cfntools. 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.