Information about the package, libabigail, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The libabigail package is designed for, Set of ABI analysis tools.
Package Name:
libabigail
Summary:
Set of ABI analysis tools
Description:
The libabigail package comprises seven command line utilities: abidiff, kmidiff, abipkgdiff, abicompat, abidw, abilint and fedabipkgdiff. The abidiff command line tool compares the ABI of two ELF shared libraries and emits meaningful textual reports about changes impacting exported functions, variables and their types. Simarly, the kmidiff compares the kernel module interface of two Linux kernels. abipkgdiff compares the ABIs of ELF binaries contained in two packages. abicompat checks if a subsequent version of a shared library is still compatible with an application that is linked against it. abidw emits an XML representation of the ABI of a given ELF shared library. abilint checks that a given XML representation of the ABI of a shared library is correct. fedabipkgdiff interacts with the Fedora Build System over the internet to let the user compare the ABI of Fedora packages without having to download them manually. Install libabigail if you need to compare the ABI of ELF shared libraries.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.2
Release:
1.el6
Size:
1.3 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
LGPLv3+
Control the libabigail package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install libabigail
This command will install libabigail on the server.
yum remove libabigail
This command will un-install libabigail on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libabigail, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove libabigail
This command will un-install libabigail 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 libabigail when using the -y flag.
yum update libabigail
This command will update libabigail to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove libabigail, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update libabigail
This command will update libabigail 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 libabigail when using the -y flag.
yum info libabigail
This command will show you core information about the libabigail package.
yum deplist libabigail
This command will show you the dependencies for libabigail. 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 libabigail
This command will check if there is an update waiting on libabigail. 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.