Information about the package, rfcdiff, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The rfcdiff package is designed for, Compares two internet draft files and outputs the difference.
Package Name:
rfcdiff
Summary:
Compares two internet draft files and outputs the difference
Description:
The purpose of this program is to compare two versions of an internet-draft, and as output produce a diff in one of several formats: - side-by-side html diff - paged wdiff output in a text terminal - a text file with changebars in the left margin - a simple unified diff output In all cases, internet-draft headers and footers are stripped before generating the diff, to produce a cleaner diff.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
1.45
Release:
3.el6
Size:
20 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the rfcdiff package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install rfcdiff
This command will install rfcdiff on the server.
yum remove rfcdiff
This command will un-install rfcdiff on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove rfcdiff, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove rfcdiff
This command will un-install rfcdiff 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 rfcdiff when using the -y flag.
yum update rfcdiff
This command will update rfcdiff to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove rfcdiff, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update rfcdiff
This command will update rfcdiff 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 rfcdiff when using the -y flag.
yum info rfcdiff
This command will show you core information about the rfcdiff package.
yum deplist rfcdiff
This command will show you the dependencies for rfcdiff. 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 rfcdiff
This command will check if there is an update waiting on rfcdiff. 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.