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 15:27, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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> On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 at 15:23, Kenneth Porter <shiva@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
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>> --On Wednesday, January 27, 2021 8:07 PM +0000 J Martin Rushton via
>> CentOS
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>> > Here's how to find the package for a particular file:
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>> That one's easy and I use this all the time:
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>> rpm -qf full-file-name
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>> 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.)
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> yum group list
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> then look at the groups installed
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> yum group info <group>
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> as in
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> yum group info base
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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



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