updateing ARGHH.

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 09:50 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:54:20 -0700, Craig wrote:
> 
> > For your question, it's not always clear where the packages came from
> > since there's no official way to do that (not that there haven't been
> > proposals for that).
> 
> Not true. There have been proposals, such as continueing to let a
> project's package build-system to fill in the "Vendor" or "Packager" tags
> (and not hardcoding them within package spec files). Look at this:
> 
>   rpm -qa --qf "%{vendor} : %{n}-%{v}-%{r}.%{arch}\\n" | sort
> 
> Additionally, Yum can tell you about installed packages not found
> in any of the enabled repositories (yum list extras).
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indeed...took quite some time too but it did identify the source of the
installed packages.

Craig