where did a package come from?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, kalinix wrote:

> On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 03:48 -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> > rday
>
> You may want to try yum search package

ah, yes, that works, too.  thanks.  i really should have checked the
man page first.

rday