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

Seth Vidal wrote:
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> On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Gerry Reno wrote:
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>> Seth Vidal wrote:
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>>> 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
>>>>
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>>> As of this time there is no place to store the information of where 
>>> a package came from.
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>>> -sv
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>> We need such metadata in yum though. Maybe this 'place' could be 
>> added in the newer versions?
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> 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.
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> -sv
If the rpm folks don't want to put this really good metadata in the 
rpmdb then let's have yum do it in a yumdb. I'm all for that.

Regards,
Gerry