Information about the package, rpmdevtools, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The rpmdevtools package is designed for, RPM Development Tools.
Package Name:
rpmdevtools
Summary:
RPM Development Tools
Description:
This package contains scripts and (X)Emacs support files to aid in development of RPM packages. rpmdev-setuptree Create RPM build tree within user's home directory rpmdev-diff Diff contents of two archives rpmdev-newspec Creates new .spec from template rpmdev-rmdevelrpms Find (and optionally remove) "development" RPMs rpmdev-checksig Check package signatures using alternate RPM keyring rpminfo Print information about executables and libraries rpmdev-md5/sha* Display checksums of all files in an archive file rpmdev-vercmp RPM version comparison checker spectool Expand and download sources and patches in specfiles rpmdev-wipetree Erase all files within dirs created by rpmdev-setuptree rpmdev-extract Extract various archives, "tar xvf" style rpmdev-bumpspec Bump revision in specfile ...and many more.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
7.5
Release:
2.el6
Size:
109 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+ and GPLv2
Control the rpmdevtools package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install rpmdevtools
This command will install rpmdevtools on the server.
yum remove rpmdevtools
This command will un-install rpmdevtools on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove rpmdevtools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove rpmdevtools
This command will un-install rpmdevtools 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 rpmdevtools when using the -y flag.
yum update rpmdevtools
This command will update rpmdevtools to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove rpmdevtools, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update rpmdevtools
This command will update rpmdevtools 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 rpmdevtools when using the -y flag.
yum info rpmdevtools
This command will show you core information about the rpmdevtools package.
yum deplist rpmdevtools
This command will show you the dependencies for rpmdevtools. 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 rpmdevtools
This command will check if there is an update waiting on rpmdevtools. 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.