Information about the package, centos-release-xen, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The centos-release-xen package is designed for, CentOS Virt SIG Xen repo configs.
Package Name:
centos-release-xen
Summary:
CentOS Virt SIG Xen repo configs
Description:
yum configs and scripts to allow easy installation of Xen on CentOS. NOTE This package may change major versions of Xen automatically on yum update. If this is not the behavior you want, please install the sub-package specific to the version of xen you want to use and then remove this package. (At the moment this is centos-release-xen-44 or centos-release-xen-46).
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
8
Release:
3.el6
Size:
6.3 k
Repository:
extras
From Repository:
Licence:
GPL
Control the centos-release-xen package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install centos-release-xen
This command will install centos-release-xen on the server.
yum remove centos-release-xen
This command will un-install centos-release-xen on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove centos-release-xen, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove centos-release-xen
This command will un-install centos-release-xen 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 when using the -y flag.
yum update centos-release-xen
This command will update centos-release-xen 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, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update centos-release-xen
This command will update centos-release-xen 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 when using the -y flag.
yum info centos-release-xen
This command will show you core information about the centos-release-xen package.
yum deplist centos-release-xen
This command will show you the dependencies for centos-release-xen. 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
This command will check if there is an update waiting on centos-release-xen. 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.