How about using yum history to find when and why the package was installed?

yum history summary dnsmasq yum history package-list dnsmasq

Jamie

On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 20:56, Kenneth Porter shiva@sewingwitch.com wrote:

--On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 3:31 PM -0500 Stephen John Smoogen smooge@gmail.com wrote:

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or one can look for the comps file in /var/cache/yum

network-tools has dnsmasq listed as a package

repoquery says the following on my rhel box NetworkManager-1:1.4.0-20.el7_3.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-network-0:4.5.0-36.el7_9.3.x86_64

Aha! It's actually in network-server ("Network Infrastructure Server") group. network-tools is the next one in the comps.xml file. The group name sounds like something I might have wanted for my application, but the contents are really for a lightweight server like one finds in a consumer router.

But, except for dhcp and radvd, none of the other packages in that group are installed, so I still don't see how I got dnsmasq on my system. Here's the network-server package list:

  <packagereq type="optional">dhcp</packagereq>
  <packagereq type="optional">dnsmasq</packagereq>
  <packagereq type="optional">freeradius</packagereq>
  <packagereq type="optional">quagga</packagereq>
  <packagereq type="optional">radvd</packagereq>
  <packagereq type="optional">rsyslog-gnutls</packagereq>
  <packagereq type="optional">rsyslog-gssapi</packagereq>
  <packagereq type="optional">rsyslog-kafka</packagereq>
  <packagereq type="optional">rsyslog-mysql</packagereq>
  <packagereq type="optional">rsyslog-pgsql</packagereq>
  <packagereq type="optional">rsyslog-relp</packagereq>
  <packagereq type="optional">syslinux</packagereq>
  <packagereq type="optional">syslinux-tftpboot</packagereq>
  <packagereq type="optional">tang</packagereq>
  <packagereq type="optional">tftp-server</packagereq>

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