On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, 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. ah, that's it. and the package name should be fine since, in your very example, there *is* no "mercurial" executable. the actual name is "hg". rday
