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

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Les Mikesell wrote:

> Seth Vidal wrote:
>> 
>>> 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.
>
> Even it rpm did implement it, people are still going to put different or 
> conflicting versions of the same rpm in different repositories, and by the 
> time rpm sees it, it won't know which one yum picked up.  Unless you could 
> pass it a source tag to stuff in the database.

the latter is the point, yah.
-sv