Steve Searle wrote: > Around 08:48am on Friday, January 12, 2007 (UK time), Robert P. J. Day scrawled: > >> On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Ed Greshko wrote: >> >>> Robert P. J. Day wrote: >>>> i *know* i've seen (and probably even asked about) this before, but >>>> how can i see from which repo an installed package came from? thanks. >>> rpm -qi >> i don't think so. for instance, i know mercurial is in the FC >> "extras" repo, but there's nothing in >> >> $ rpm -qi mercurial >> >> that tells me that. > > yum whatprovides mercurial > > mercurial.i386 0.9.1-2.fc6 extras > > you may need to provide the name of a file associated witht the package, > i usually use the binary. Oh, yeah. yum, keep forgetting about that. Still too used to using up2date. -- I'm an East Side TYPE...
