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perl-PatchReader


Information about the package, perl-PatchReader, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-PatchReader package is designed for, Utilities to read and manipulate patches and CVS.


Package Name:

perl-PatchReader

Summary:

Utilities to read and manipulate patches and CVS

Description:

PatchReader is a set of utilities for reading in, transforming, and doing various other things with a patch. It basically allows you to create a chain of readers that can read a patch, remove files from a patch, add CVS context, fix up the patch root according to CVS, and output the patch as raw unified or through a template processor (used in some places to output a patch as HTML).

Architecture:

noarch

Version:

0.9.5

Release:

7.el6

Size:

18 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

MPLv1.1



Handy Yum Commands for perl-PatchReader


Control the perl-PatchReader package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install perl-PatchReader

This command will install perl-PatchReader on the server.

yum remove perl-PatchReader

This command will un-install perl-PatchReader on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-PatchReader, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove perl-PatchReader

This command will un-install perl-PatchReader 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 perl-PatchReader when using the -y flag.

yum update perl-PatchReader

This command will update perl-PatchReader to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-PatchReader, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update perl-PatchReader

This command will update perl-PatchReader 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 perl-PatchReader when using the -y flag.

yum info perl-PatchReader

This command will show you core information about the perl-PatchReader package.

yum deplist perl-PatchReader

This command will show you the dependencies for perl-PatchReader. 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 perl-PatchReader

This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-PatchReader. 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.