[CentOS] Third party repo differences

Bowie Bailey Bowie_Bailey at BUC.com
Fri May 25 17:00:57 UTC 2012


On 5/25/2012 12:43 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 11:00 AM, John Doe <jdmls at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> From: Bowie Bailey <Bowie_Bailey at BUC.com>
>>
>>> On a related note, I have a server that is using both the epel and
>>> rpmforge repos.  Is there a way to determine which packages came from
>>> which repo?
>> You could try something like this:
>>   rpm -qa --qf "%-30{NAME}%{VENDOR}\n"

That looks interesting.  I see four vendor names listed.

        CentOS
        Dag Apt Repository
        Fedora Project
        (none)

Is "Fedora Project" EPEL?

> In 6.x, yum keeps track of where packages were installed from.
> yum history packages-info packagename(s)
> will show that among other things.  There might be a better way to get
> the whole list.

Unfortunately, this is an older system that I am trying to rebuild as
CentOS 6.

-- 
Bowie



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