[CentOS] What repo did this rpm come from? rpm-VVa failures on new install
Robert Heller
heller at deepsoft.com
Thu Sep 10 02:06:52 UTC 2009
At Wed, 9 Sep 2009 15:01:59 -1000 CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Robert Heller<heller at deepsoft.com> wrote:
> > (I 'cheated' -- I have a pile of RPMs sitting in their proper
> > places under /var/cache/yum/...).
>
> I think this is the clue I needed. I also have such a pile, and
> although it is not complete (wouldn't even need to know repo then, I'd
> have all the rpms already), it should be sufficient to
> reverse-engineer a map from vendors to repos. I'd forgotten that
> directory was organized by source repo.
Generally, there is a mapping from Vendor to repo and mostly this
mapping is not too hard to deduce.
>
> Side problem - I just have too many repos, I am probably asking for
> trouble. At least I am running the priorities addon, which may save me
> most of the time.
>
> mahalo,
> Dave
>
> ls /var/cache/yum
> addons rpmfusion-free-updates
> adobe-linux-i386 rpmfusion-free-updates-testing
> base rpmfusion-nonfree-updates
> epel rpmfusion-nonfree-updates-testing
> extras timedhosts.txt
> rpmforge updates
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