[Yum] how can i tell which repo a package came from?

[Les Bell]

Rahul Sundaram <sundaram at redhat.com> wrote:

>>
its in extras repository which is enabled by default. yum install xmms
works as mentioned in the release notes
<<

Hmmm. I don't think it worked for me, as "yum install xmms" would have been
the first thing I tried. Still, patching the xmms source to compile under
gcc 4 was an interesting exercise, and I'll use it in some course notes I'm
writing, so the time wasn't wasted.

Best,

--- Les Bell, RHCE, CISSP
[http://www.lesbell.com.au]