status of up2date and rhn-applet

[Peter Gordon]

On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 08:51 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> >
> > It would be useful (I have often wished it did) if e.g. yum list x 
> > would not  just tell me some release of x is installed, but also from 
> > which repo it came  when it was installed. But I'm not sure the rpm 
> > database contains that  information, so this may not be possible? 
> 
> Umm. It already does that. The last item in the list is the repository 
> name. If you are running rawhide, it would development or 
> extras-development.
> 
> regards
> Rahul
> 
Rahul, 

Perhaps I'm simply misunderstanding, but I think what Willem's referring
to is that, for installed packages, it simply lists "installed" as the
repository. For example, `yum list totem` returns:

Available Packages
totem.i386	1.0.4-1		installed

What I believe that Willem is trying to explain is that Yum should show
which repo it was installed from, perhaps with output such as:

Available Packages
totem.i386	1.0.4-1		installed (from updates-released)

I've not at all delved into the internals of Yum or RPM's
database handling, so I'm not sure of its plausibility. Hmm. :-/
-- 
Peter Gordon (codergeek42)
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