[CentOS] how to find...

[Peter Kjellström]

On Sunday 04 March 2012 21.15.03 fred smith wrote:
> I'm trying to find out from which repo I got xiphos and its matching
> sword libraries from, and somehow am not finding it. hints, anyone?
> 
> thanks!

On CentOS-6 you can use yumdb to get real data (saved explicitly when a pkg is 
installed):
 yumdb info pkgname

On CentOS-5 there's no such thing and the only thing you can do is to ask 
"from where would this pkg be installed if I did so now?"

/Peter
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