Information about the package, patchutils, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The patchutils package is designed for, A collection of programs for manipulating patch files.
Package Name:
patchutils
Summary:
A collection of programs for manipulating patch files
Description:
This is a collection of programs that can manipulate patch files in a variety of ways, such as interpolating between two pre-patches, combining two incremental patches, fixing line numbers in hand-edited patches, and simply listing the files modified by a patch.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.3.1
Release:
3.1.el6
Size:
95 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the patchutils package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install patchutils
This command will install patchutils on the server.
yum remove patchutils
This command will un-install patchutils on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove patchutils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove patchutils
This command will un-install patchutils 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 patchutils when using the -y flag.
yum update patchutils
This command will update patchutils to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove patchutils, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update patchutils
This command will update patchutils 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 patchutils when using the -y flag.
yum info patchutils
This command will show you core information about the patchutils package.
yum deplist patchutils
This command will show you the dependencies for patchutils. 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 patchutils
This command will check if there is an update waiting on patchutils. 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.