[CentOS] Yum - which repo did a package come from
Tony Mountifield
tony at softins.clara.co.uk
Tue Aug 4 08:36:20 UTC 2009
In article <780192.16859.qm at web51101.mail.re2.yahoo.com>,
Linux Advocate <linuxhousedn at yahoo.com> wrote:
> guys,
>
> i have installed mailscanner, spamassassin, etc on my machine. This was done sometime ago.
> Some of these rpms i got not frm centos repos.
>
> What command ( or yum command ) can i use to find out which repo did this installled
> package come from.
>
> yum info packagename just says;
>
> repo : installed
>
> i was hoping for something like repo:rpmforge or something similiar. i have these 3 rpms
> which i cant remember where i got them from.
>
>
> dovecot-1.0.7-7.el5
> mailscanner-4.74.13-2
> spamassassin-3.2.5-1.el5
Yes, I have found this is a limitation of yum. It would be nice if the
information about the source repository could be stored somewhere.
If these were installed after the initial OS installation, and you haven't
done a yum clean, you might be able to glean some info from the cache:
# ls -l /var/cache/yum/*/packages
This won't give you any information about packages installed using rpm
directly instead of yum.
Cheers
Tony
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