Information about the package, febootstrap, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The febootstrap package is designed for, Bootstrapping tool for creating supermin appliances.
Package Name:
febootstrap
Summary:
Bootstrapping tool for creating supermin appliances
Description:
febootstrap is a tool for building supermin appliances. These are tiny appliances (similar to virtual machines), usually around 100KB in size, which get fully instantiated on-the-fly in a fraction of a second when you need to boot one of them. Note that febootstrap in RHEL 6.3+ builds febootstrap (version 2.11) and febootstrap3 (version 3.21). This is for backwards compatibility with RHEL 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
3.21
Release:
4.el6
Size:
204 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the febootstrap package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install febootstrap
This command will install febootstrap on the server.
yum remove febootstrap
This command will un-install febootstrap on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove febootstrap, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove febootstrap
This command will un-install febootstrap 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 febootstrap when using the -y flag.
yum update febootstrap
This command will update febootstrap to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove febootstrap, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update febootstrap
This command will update febootstrap 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 febootstrap when using the -y flag.
yum info febootstrap
This command will show you core information about the febootstrap package.
yum deplist febootstrap
This command will show you the dependencies for febootstrap. 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 febootstrap
This command will check if there is an update waiting on febootstrap. 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.