Information about the package, voms, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The voms package is designed for, Virtual Organization Membership Service.
Package Name:
voms
Summary:
Virtual Organization Membership Service
Description:
The Virtual Organization Membership Service (VOMS) is an attribute authority which serves as central repository for VO user authorization information, providing support for sorting users into group hierarchies, keeping track of their roles and other attributes in order to issue trusted attribute certificates and SAML assertions used in the Grid environment for authorization purposes. This package provides libraries that applications using the VOMS functionality will bind to.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.0.14
Release:
1.el6
Size:
152 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
ASL 2.0
Control the voms package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install voms
This command will install voms on the server.
yum remove voms
This command will un-install voms on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove voms, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove voms
This command will un-install voms 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 voms when using the -y flag.
yum update voms
This command will update voms to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove voms, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update voms
This command will update voms 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 voms when using the -y flag.
yum info voms
This command will show you core information about the voms package.
yum deplist voms
This command will show you the dependencies for voms. 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 voms
This command will check if there is an update waiting on voms. 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.