Information about the package, perl-Digest-HMAC, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The perl-Digest-HMAC package is designed for, Digest-HMAC Perl module.
Package Name:
perl-Digest-HMAC
Summary:
Digest-HMAC Perl module
Description:
HMAC is used for message integrity checks between two parties that share a secret key, and works in combination with some other Digest algorithm, usually MD5 or SHA-1. The HMAC mechanism is described in RFC 2104. HMAC follow the common Digest:: interface, but the constructor takes the secret key and the name of some other simple Digest:: as argument.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
1.01
Release:
22.el6
Size:
33 k
Repository:
installed
From Repository:
base
Licence:
GPL+ or Artistic
Control the perl-Digest-HMAC package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install perl-Digest-HMAC
This command will install perl-Digest-HMAC on the server.
yum remove perl-Digest-HMAC
This command will un-install perl-Digest-HMAC on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-Digest-HMAC, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove perl-Digest-HMAC
This command will un-install perl-Digest-HMAC 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-Digest-HMAC when using the -y flag.
yum update perl-Digest-HMAC
This command will update perl-Digest-HMAC to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove perl-Digest-HMAC, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update perl-Digest-HMAC
This command will update perl-Digest-HMAC 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-Digest-HMAC when using the -y flag.
yum info perl-Digest-HMAC
This command will show you core information about the perl-Digest-HMAC package.
yum deplist perl-Digest-HMAC
This command will show you the dependencies for perl-Digest-HMAC. 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-Digest-HMAC
This command will check if there is an update waiting on perl-Digest-HMAC. 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.