Information about the package, centos-release-xen-common, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The centos-release-xen-common package is designed for, CentOS Virt Sig Xen support files.
Package Name:
centos-release-xen-common
Summary:
CentOS Virt Sig Xen support files
Description:
This contains the grub-bootxen.sh helper-script which enables the xen package to add itself to grub automatically.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
8
Release:
3.el6
Size:
6.9 k
Repository:
extras
From Repository:
Licence:
GPL
Control the centos-release-xen-common package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install centos-release-xen-common
This command will install centos-release-xen-common on the server.
yum remove centos-release-xen-common
This command will un-install centos-release-xen-common on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove centos-release-xen-common, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove centos-release-xen-common
This command will un-install centos-release-xen-common 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 centos-release-xen-common when using the -y flag.
yum update centos-release-xen-common
This command will update centos-release-xen-common to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove centos-release-xen-common, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update centos-release-xen-common
This command will update centos-release-xen-common 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 centos-release-xen-common when using the -y flag.
yum info centos-release-xen-common
This command will show you core information about the centos-release-xen-common package.
yum deplist centos-release-xen-common
This command will show you the dependencies for centos-release-xen-common. 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 centos-release-xen-common
This command will check if there is an update waiting on centos-release-xen-common. 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.