Check if a repository is being used?

[Todd Zullinger]

Stanczak Group wrote:
> If you have a couple different repositories and you'd like to remove
> one, is there a way to see if there are any packages on your system
> that are from the repository?

You can disable the repo and use list extras to help find packages
from that repo:

yum --disablerepo="reponame_here" list extras

That's not perfect, but it's a start.  You could also try querying via
rpm for the vendor:

rpm -qa --queryformat '%{name} %{vendor}\n' | grep 'vendor_of_repo'

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