Information about the package, repo_manager, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The repo_manager package is designed for, Manage your RPM repositories easily.
Package Name:
repo_manager
Summary:
Manage your RPM repositories easily
Description:
repo_manager allows you to easily manage your RPM repositories. It helps you add or remove RPMs from your repositories, it allows you to 'upgrade' a RPM from one repo into another one (for example from testing to prod). Repo_manager can also give you some information about the state of your repositories (number of RPMs, SRPMs, duplicates) and clean them (ie: remove the duplicates while keeping the last X versions available, X being set by the user).
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
0.1.0
Release:
3.el6
Size:
30 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv3+
Control the repo_manager package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install repo_manager
This command will install repo_manager on the server.
yum remove repo_manager
This command will un-install repo_manager on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove repo_manager, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove repo_manager
This command will un-install repo_manager 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 repo_manager when using the -y flag.
yum update repo_manager
This command will update repo_manager to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove repo_manager, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update repo_manager
This command will update repo_manager 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 repo_manager when using the -y flag.
yum info repo_manager
This command will show you core information about the repo_manager package.
yum deplist repo_manager
This command will show you the dependencies for repo_manager. 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 repo_manager
This command will check if there is an update waiting on repo_manager. 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.