On Wed, 15 Dec 2010, John Hodrien wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: John Hodrien <J.H.Hodrien at leeds.ac.uk> > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Stripping silent periods from MP3s > > 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 Got it now TY, after looking for it on a mirror, and using wget. Keith -- In theory, theory and practice are the same; in practice they are not. This email was sent from my laptop with Centos 5.5