Information about the package, hiera, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The hiera package is designed for, A simple hierarchical database supporting plugin data sources.
Package Name:
hiera
Summary:
A simple hierarchical database supporting plugin data sources
Description:
A simple hierarchical database supporting plugin data sources.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
1.0.0
Release:
4.el6
Size:
22 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
ASL 2.0
Control the hiera package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install hiera
This command will install hiera on the server.
yum remove hiera
This command will un-install hiera on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove hiera, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove hiera
This command will un-install hiera 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 hiera when using the -y flag.
yum update hiera
This command will update hiera to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove hiera, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update hiera
This command will update hiera 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 hiera when using the -y flag.
yum info hiera
This command will show you core information about the hiera package.
yum deplist hiera
This command will show you the dependencies for hiera. 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 hiera
This command will check if there is an update waiting on hiera. 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.