Information about the package, grubby, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The grubby package is designed for, Command line tool for updating bootloader configs.
Package Name:
grubby
Summary:
Command line tool for updating bootloader configs
Description:
grubby is a command line tool for updating and displaying information about the configuration files for the grub, lilo, elilo (ia64), yaboot (powerpc) and zipl (s390) boot loaders. It is primarily designed to be used from scripts which install new kernels and need to find information about the current boot environment.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
7.0.15
Release:
7.el6
Size:
83 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the grubby package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install grubby
This command will install grubby on the server.
yum remove grubby
This command will un-install grubby on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove grubby, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove grubby
This command will un-install grubby 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 grubby when using the -y flag.
yum update grubby
This command will update grubby to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove grubby, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update grubby
This command will update grubby 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 grubby when using the -y flag.
yum info grubby
This command will show you core information about the grubby package.
yum deplist grubby
This command will show you the dependencies for grubby. 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 grubby
This command will check if there is an update waiting on grubby. 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.