Information about the package, physfs, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The physfs package is designed for, Library to provide abstract access to various archives.
Package Name:
physfs
Summary:
Library to provide abstract access to various archives
Description:
PhysicsFS is a library to provide abstract access to various archives. It is intended for use in video games, and the design was somewhat inspired by Quake 3's file subsystem. The programmer defines a "write directory" on the physical filesystem. No file writing done through the PhysicsFS API can leave that write directory, for security. For example, an embedded scripting language cannot write outside of this path if it uses PhysFS for all of its I/O, which means that untrusted scripts can run more safely. Symbolic links can be disabled as well, for added safety. For file reading, the programmer lists directories and archives that form a "search path". Once the search path is defined, it becomes a single, transparent hierarchical filesystem. This makes for easy access to ZIP files in the same way as you access a file directly on the disk, and it makes it easy to ship a new archive that will override a previous archive on a per-file basis. Finally, PhysicsFS gives you platform-abstracted means to determine if CD-ROMs are available, the user's home directory, where in the real filesystem your program is running, etc.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
1.0.2
Release:
2.el6
Size:
44 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
zlib
Control the physfs package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install physfs
This command will install physfs on the server.
yum remove physfs
This command will un-install physfs on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove physfs, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove physfs
This command will un-install physfs 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 physfs when using the -y flag.
yum update physfs
This command will update physfs to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove physfs, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update physfs
This command will update physfs 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 physfs when using the -y flag.
yum info physfs
This command will show you core information about the physfs package.
yum deplist physfs
This command will show you the dependencies for physfs. 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 physfs
This command will check if there is an update waiting on physfs. 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.