Information about the package, perl-LockFile-Simple, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-LockFile-Simple package is designed for, Simple file locking scheme.
Package Name:
perl-LockFile-Simple
Summary:
Simple file locking scheme
Description:
This simple locking scheme is not based on any file locking system calls such as flock() or lockf() but rather relies on basic file system primitives and properties, such as the atomicity of the write() system call. It is not meant to be exempt from all race conditions, especially over NFS.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
0.207
Release:
2.el6
Size:
23 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+ or Artistic
Control the perl-LockFile-Simple package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perl-LockFile-Simple
This command will install perl-LockFile-Simple on the server.
yum remove perl-LockFile-Simple
This command will un-install perl-LockFile-Simple on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-LockFile-Simple, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perl-LockFile-Simple
This command will un-install perl-LockFile-Simple 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 perl-LockFile-Simple when using the -y flag.
yum update perl-LockFile-Simple
This command will update perl-LockFile-Simple to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-LockFile-Simple, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perl-LockFile-Simple
This command will update perl-LockFile-Simple 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 perl-LockFile-Simple when using the -y flag.
yum info perl-LockFile-Simple
This command will show you core information about the perl-LockFile-Simple package.
yum deplist perl-LockFile-Simple
This command will show you the dependencies for perl-LockFile-Simple. 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 perl-LockFile-Simple
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-LockFile-Simple. 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.