Determining the origin repository of a rpm

[Robin Laing]

Paul Smith wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> Is there some way of knowing from which repository a specified rpm was
> installed?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> Paul
> 
rpm -qi {package}

I just did it with mplayer.

[xxxxxxx]# rpm -qi mplayer
Name        : mplayer                      Relocations: (not relocatable)
Version     : 1.0                               Vendor: Freshrpms.net
Release     : 0.16.pre7.2.fc4               Build Date: Wed 04 May 
2005 08:45:02 AM MDT
Install Date: Thu 11 Aug 2005 07:15:42 AM MDT      Build Host: 
python2.freshrpms.net
Group       : Applications/Multimedia       Source RPM: 
mplayer-1.0-0.16.pre7.2.fc4.src.rpm
Size        : 7263151                          License: GPL
Signature   : DSA/SHA1, Wed 04 May 2005 09:01:42 AM MDT, Key ID 
692ac459e42d547bPackager    : Matthias Saou <matthias at rpmforge.net>
URL         : http://mplayerhq.hu/
Summary     : MPlayer, the Movie Player for Linux
Description :
MPlayer is a multimedia player. It plays most video formats as well as 
DVDs.  Its big feature is the wide range of supported output drivers. 
There are also nice antialiased shaded subtitles and OSD.

On x86, additional Win32 binary codecs should be added to /usr/lib/win32/.

Available rpmbuild rebuild options :
--with : samba dvb
--without : aalib lirc cdparanoia arts xvid esd dvdread lzo libfame caca
             theora osdmenu gcccheck fribidi xvmc

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Robin Laing