[CentOS] What repo did this rpm come from? rpm-VVa failures on new install

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 8 Sep 2009 15:15:33 -1000 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Stephen John Smoogen<smooge at gmail.com> wrote:
> > rpm -qf 'fill in file name here' this will tell you hat RPM owned that file.
> >
> Then how do I find the rpm? I need to figure out which repo it came
> from, then download it from the repo, then unpack it and do a diff.
> 
> 'yum info  <packagename>' seems to just say  'Repo      : installed'.
> How do I get yum to tell me what repo it came from? Or should I just
> google for the rpm name and download it from any old place?
> Dave

rpm -qi <package name>

man rpm
RTFM

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