Information about the package, ocaml-biniou, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The ocaml-biniou package is designed for, Safe and fast binary data format.
Package Name:
ocaml-biniou
Summary:
Safe and fast binary data format
Description:
Biniou (pronounced "be new") is a binary data format designed for speed, safety, ease of use and backward compatibility as protocols evolve. Biniou is vastly equivalent to JSON in terms of functionality but allows implementations several times faster (4 times faster than yojson), with 25-35% space savings. Biniou data can be decoded into human-readable form without knowledge of type definitions except for field and variant names which are represented by 31-bit hashes. A program named bdump is provided for routine visualization of biniou data files.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.0.9
Release:
18.el6
Size:
113 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
BSD
Control the ocaml-biniou package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install ocaml-biniou
This command will install ocaml-biniou on the server.
yum remove ocaml-biniou
This command will un-install ocaml-biniou on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ocaml-biniou, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove ocaml-biniou
This command will un-install ocaml-biniou 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 ocaml-biniou when using the -y flag.
yum update ocaml-biniou
This command will update ocaml-biniou to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove ocaml-biniou, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update ocaml-biniou
This command will update ocaml-biniou 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 ocaml-biniou when using the -y flag.
yum info ocaml-biniou
This command will show you core information about the ocaml-biniou package.
yum deplist ocaml-biniou
This command will show you the dependencies for ocaml-biniou. 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 ocaml-biniou
This command will check if there is an update waiting on ocaml-biniou. 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.