[CentOS] Yum - which repo did a package come from

2009-08-04 Thread Linux Advocate
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 :

Re: [CentOS] Yum - which repo did a package come from

2009-08-04 Thread Frank Cox
On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:33:52 -0700 (PDT) Linux Advocate wrote: What command ( or yum command ) can i use to find out which repo did this installled package come from. rpm -qi packagename -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com

Re: [CentOS] Yum - which repo did a package come from

2009-08-04 Thread John R Pierce
Linux Advocate 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

Re: [CentOS] Yum - which repo did a package come from

2009-08-04 Thread Linux Advocate
Frank, On Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:33:52 -0700 (PDT) Linux Advocate wrote: What command ( or yum command ) can i use to find out which repo did this installled package come from. rpm -qi packagename # rpm -qi spamassassin Name: spamassassin Relocations: /usr

Re: [CentOS] Yum - which repo did a package come from

2009-08-04 Thread Linux Advocate
What command ( or yum command ) can i use to find out which repo did this installled package come from. rpm -qi packagename # rpm -qi mailscanner Name: mailscanner Relocations: (not relocatable) Version : 4.74.13 Vendor:

Re: [CentOS] Yum - which repo did a package come from

2009-08-04 Thread Tony Mountifield
In article 780192.16859...@web51101.mail.re2.yahoo.com, Linux Advocate linuxhous...@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

Re: [CentOS] Yum - which repo did a package come from

2009-08-04 Thread Linux Advocate
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: #