Re: [CentOS] How to query which yum package groups a particular package is member of

2021-01-28 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Thursday, January 28, 2021 7:22 AM -0700 James Szinger wrote: I'm guessing that means it was a dependency for something back then. Is there a way to discover what? Using "yum history info 1" I see that this was the original Anaconda install from 2014. Could dnsmasq be in the original mini

Re: [CentOS] How to query which yum package groups a particular package is member of

2021-01-28 Thread James Szinger
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 16:21:33 -0800 Kenneth Porter wrote: > I'm guessing that means it was a dependency for something back then. > Is there a way to discover what? Using "yum history info 1" I see > that this was the original Anaconda install from 2014. Could dnsmasq > be in the original minimal d

Re: [CentOS] How to query which yum package groups a particular package is member of

2021-01-28 Thread James Szinger
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 16:21:33 -0800 Kenneth Porter wrote: > I'm guessing that means it was a dependency for something back then. > Is there a way to discover what? Using "yum history info 1" I see > that this was the original Anaconda install from 2014. Could dnsmasq > be in the original minimal d

Re: [CentOS] How to query which yum package groups a particular package is member of

2021-01-27 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 11:35 PM + Jamie Burchell wrote: How about using yum history to find when and why the package was installed? yum history summary dnsmasq yum history package-list dnsmasq Very nice! The oldest record of the second command: 1 | Dep-Install| dnsmasq-2

Re: [CentOS] How to query which yum package groups a particular package is member of

2021-01-27 Thread Jamie Burchell
How about using yum history to find when and why the package was installed? yum history summary dnsmasq yum history package-list dnsmasq Jamie On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 20:56, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 3:31 PM -0500 Stephen John Smoogen > wrote: > > > or one can lo

Re: [CentOS] How to query which yum package groups a particular package is member of

2021-01-27 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 3:31 PM -0500 Stephen John Smoogen wrote: or one can look for the comps file in /var/cache/yum network-tools has dnsmasq listed as a package repoquery says the following on my rhel box NetworkManager-1:1.4.0-20.el7_3.x86_64 libvirt-daemon-driver-network-0:4.5

Re: [CentOS] How to query which yum package groups a particular package is member of

2021-01-27 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 15:27, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 15:23, Kenneth Porter > wrote: > >> --On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 8:07 PM + J Martin Rushton via >> CentOS >> wrote: >> >> > Here's how to find the package for a particular file: >> >> That one's easy

Re: [CentOS] How to query which yum package groups a particular package is member of

2021-01-27 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 15:23, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 8:07 PM + J Martin Rushton via CentOS > wrote: > > > Here's how to find the package for a particular file: > > That one's easy and I use this all the time: > > rpm -qf full-file-name > > I'm looking for ho

Re: [CentOS] How to query which yum package groups a particular package is member of

2021-01-27 Thread Kenneth Porter
--On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 8:07 PM + J Martin Rushton via CentOS wrote: Here's how to find the package for a particular file: That one's easy and I use this all the time: rpm -qf full-file-name I'm looking for how to get the yum group for a package. (I'm guessing a package might

Re: [CentOS] How to query which yum package groups a particular package is member of

2021-01-27 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 15:01, Kenneth Porter wrote: > I'm trying to find out how dnsmasq got on my CentOS 7 system, since I use > BIND for DNS. I'm guessing it was part of a base group that Anaconda > installs for all systems. > > probably from virtualization if it is there.. but a way to check i

Re: [CentOS] How to query which yum package groups a particular package is member of

2021-01-27 Thread J Martin Rushton via CentOS
Here's how to find the package for a particular file: # ls /{bin,sbin}/dns* /bin/dnsdomainname/sbin/dnssec-coverage /sbin/dnssec-keyfromlabel /sbin/dnssec-revoke/sbin/dnssec-verify /sbin/dnsmasq /sbin/dnssec-dsfromkey /sbin/dnssec-keygen /sbin/dnssec-settime /sbin/dnssec-chec

[CentOS] How to query which yum package groups a particular package is member of

2021-01-27 Thread Kenneth Porter
I'm trying to find out how dnsmasq got on my CentOS 7 system, since I use BIND for DNS. I'm guessing it was part of a base group that Anaconda installs for all systems. Red Hat has this answered on this page but the answer is only available to subscribers. I'm guessing this kind of content wil