Re: Can yum show a listing of just the locally installed packages?

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Gerry Reno wrote:

> Seth Vidal wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Gerry Reno wrote:
>>> Yeah, I was afraid that was the case. I'd tried about everything in the 
>>> man page.
>>> 
>>> Suggestion: What would be great from the standpoint of yum metadata is if 
>>> we could query yum and have it tell us what repository delivered each 
>>> package. Something like:
>>> 
>>> # yum list installed
>>> Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
>>> Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
>>> * fedora: ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de
>>> * updates: ftp-stud.hs-esslingen.de
>>> fedora 100% |=========================| 2.1 kB 00:00
>>> updates 100% |=========================| 2.3 kB 00:00
>>> Installed Packages
>>> yum.noarch 3.2.8-2.fc7 installed fedora
>>> yum-fastestmirror.noarch 1.1.11-1.fc7 installed fedora-updates
>>> yum-metadata-parser.i386 1.1.0-2.fc7 installed fedora-updates
>>> yum-updatesd.noarch 3.2.8-2.fc7 installed fedora-updates
>>> yum-versionlock.noarch 1.1.11-1.fc7 installed local
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> As of this time there is no place to store the information of where a 
>> package came from.
>> 
>> -sv
>> 
> We need such metadata in yum though. Maybe this 'place' could be added in the 
> newer versions?

It is, in fact, on the feature list. We got a considerable amount of 
pushback the first time I implemented it b/c a lot of people thought the 
data should be in the rpmdb, not in a separate yum db. Various folks have 
given up since then and decided we can put it in a yum 'db' of some kind 
and query it from yum.


-sv