repoquery is a program for querying information from YUM repositories similarly to rpm queries.

--querytags

List valid queryformat tags and exit..

-v, --version

Report program version and exit.

--repoid=<repo>

Specify which repository to query. Using this option disables all repositories not explicitly enabled with --repoid option (can be used multiple times). By default repoquery uses whatever repositories are enabled in YUM configuration.

-q

For rpmquery compatibility, doesn't do anything.

-h, --help

Help; display a help message and then quit.

--quiet

Run quietly: no warnings printed to stderr.

-C

Tells repoquery to run entirely from YUM cache - does not download any metadata or update the cache. Queries in this mode can fail or give partial/incorrect results if the cache isn't fully populated beforehand with eg "yum makecache".

--tempcache

Create and use a private cache instead of the main YUM cache. This is used by default when run as non-root user.

-c <config file>

Use alternative config file (default is /etc/yum.conf).

-i, --info

Show general information about package similarly to "rpm -qi"

-l, --list

List files in package.

--requires

List package dependencies.

--resolve

When used with --requires, resolve capabilities to originating packages.

--provides

List capabilities package provides.

--obsoletes

List capabilities obsoleted by package.

--conflicts

List capabilities conflicting with package.

--changelog

List package changelog.

--location

Show a location where the package could be downloaded from. For example: wget `repoquery --location yum`

-s, --source

Show package source RPM name.

--groupmember PACKAGE

List the repodata groups (yumgroups.xml) belongs to (if any).

--nvr

Use name-version-release output format (rpm query default)

--nevra

Use name-epoch:version-release.architecture output format (default)

--envra

Use epoch:name-version-release.architecture output format (easier to parse than nevra)

--qf=FORMAT, --queryformat=FORMAT

Specify custom output format for queries.

-a

Query all available packages (for rpmquery compatibility / shorthand for repoquery '*')

-f, --file FILE

Query package owning FILE.

--whatobsoletes CAPABILITY

Query all packages that obsolete CAPABILITY.

--whatconflicts CAPABILITY

Query all packages that conflict with CAPABILITY.

--whatprovides CAPABILITY

Query all packages that provide CAPABILITY.

--whatrequires CAPABILITY

Query all packages that require CAPABILITY.

--alldeps

When used with --whatrequires, use both automatic and manual dependencies for the query.

--archlist=ARCH1[,ARCH2...]

Limit the query to packages of given architecture(s). Valid values are all architectures known to rpm/yum such as 'i386' and 'src' for source RPMS.

--pkgnarrow=WHAT

Limit what packages are considered for the query. Valid values for WHAT are: installed, available, recent, updates, extras, all and repository (default).

--show-dupes

Query all versions of package. By default only newest packages are considered.

-i, --info

Show general information about group.

-l, --list

List packages belonging to (required by) group.

--grouppkgs=WHAT

Specify what type of packages are queried from groups. Valid values for WHAT are all, mandatory, default, optional.

--requires

List groups required by group.

-a

Query all available groups.

-g

Query groups instead of packages.

List all packages whose name contains 'perl':

repoquery '*perl*'

List all packages depending on openssl:

repoquery --whatrequires --alldeps openssl

List all package names and the repository they come from, nicely formatted:

repoquery -a --qf "%-20{repoid} %{name}"

List name and summary of all available updates (if any), nicely formatted:

repoquery -a --pkgnarrow=updates --qf "%{name}:\n%{summary}\n"

List optional packages in base group:

repoquery -g --grouppkgs=optional -l base

List build requirements from 'anaconda' source rpm:

repoquery --requires anaconda.src

List packages which BuildRequire gail-devel

repoquery --archlist=src --whatrequires gail-devel

Specifying package names

A package can be referred to in all queries with any of the following:

name name.arch name-ver name-ver-rel name-ver-rel.arch name-epoch:ver-rel.arch epoch:name-ver-rel.arch

For example: repoquery -l kernel-2.4.1-10.i686 Additionally wildcards (shell-style globs) can be used.

/etc/yum.conf
/etc/yum/repos.d/
/var/cache/yum/