Re: yum repolist vs. grep -i enabled *.repo

James Antill <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.rpm.yum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Larry Vaden <[email protected]> writes:

> Hello,
>
> After attempting a migration from CentOS 5.5 to Scientific Linux 5.5,
> the result is a system in an inconsistent state.
>
> The basic stanza used for the migration was from
> [email protected] and is below the yum/grep
> output.
>
> Trying to learn more about yum and its use, I ran the commands below the sig.
>
> 1) What am I missing about the possible/perceived discrepancies
> between the outputs of yum repolist and grep?

 .repo files can contain one or more repos. ... Eg. base.repo
 Also grepping for "enabled=" will miss lines like "enabled = 1".

> 2) For a given installed package, is it possible to get yum to
> identify which repository was used for the installation?

 Only in versions of yum newer than what is in CentOS-5 (you can try
the RHEL-5 yum-rawhide rebuild repo. ... at your own risk :)

-- 
James Antill -- [email protected]
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