Information about the package, salt-master, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The salt-master package is designed for, Management component for salt, a parallel remote execution system.
Package Name:
salt-master
Summary:
Management component for salt, a parallel remote execution system
Description:
The Salt master is the central server to which all minions connect.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
2015.5.10
Release:
2.el6
Size:
1.0 M
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
ASL 2.0
Control the salt-master package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install salt-master
This command will install salt-master on the server.
yum remove salt-master
This command will un-install salt-master on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove salt-master, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove salt-master
This command will un-install salt-master 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 salt-master when using the -y flag.
yum update salt-master
This command will update salt-master to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove salt-master, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update salt-master
This command will update salt-master 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 salt-master when using the -y flag.
yum info salt-master
This command will show you core information about the salt-master package.
yum deplist salt-master
This command will show you the dependencies for salt-master. 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 salt-master
This command will check if there is an update waiting on salt-master. 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.