On Tue, 14 Dec 2010, Keith Roberts wrote: > If a package is installed, eg sox, the repo it came from is > no longer showing. It just says 'installed' which is not > that helpfull. Maybe the repo should be shown in an > immutable field, that does not get updated when the package > is installed? > > How can I find out the repo sox is in, so I can enable the > source code for that particular repo, to rebuild this > package? > > Is there an rpm or yum command I need to tell me where an > installed package came from? rpm -qi sox will normally give you enough clues as to where it came from, as the signer should give it away. You'll probably also find this does what you want: yum list --showduplicates sox jh