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

[Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 15:23, Kenneth Porter <shiva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> --On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 8:07 PM +0000 J Martin Rushton via CentOS
> <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> 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


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