Stephen John Smoogen
2021-Jan-27 20:27 UTC
[CentOS] How to query which yum package groups a particular package is member of
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 15:23, Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> wrote:> --On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 8:07 PM +0000 J Martin Rushton via CentOS > <centos at centos.org> 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 even be in more than one group?) That would help explain how > the dnsmasq package got installed on my system. (It was never enabled by > systemd and isn't required by any other package. So I went ahead and > erased > it to free the space and reduce my attack surface.) > > >yum group list then look at the groups installed yum group info <group> as in yum group info base> _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >-- Stephen J Smoogen.
Stephen John Smoogen
2021-Jan-27 20:31 UTC
[CentOS] How to query which yum package groups a particular package is member of
On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 15:27, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge at gmail.com> wrote:> > > On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 15:23, Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com> > wrote: > >> --On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 8:07 PM +0000 J Martin Rushton via >> CentOS >> <centos at centos.org> 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 even be in more than one group?) That would help explain >> how >> the dnsmasq package got installed on my system. (It was never enabled by >> systemd and isn't required by any other package. So I went ahead and >> erased >> it to free the space and reduce my attack surface.) >> >> >> > yum group list > > then look at the groups installed > > yum group info <group> > > as in > > yum group info base > >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-0:4.5.0-36.el7_9.3.x86_64> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> > > > -- > Stephen J Smoogen. > >-- Stephen J Smoogen.