repoquery(1) — Linux manual page

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repoquery(1)                                                repoquery(1)

NAME         top

       repoquery - query information from Yum repositories

SYNOPSIS         top

       repoquery [options] <item ...>
       repoquery -a [options]

DESCRIPTION         top

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

GENERAL OPTIONS         top

       --querytags
              List valid queryformat tags and exit.

       --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.

       --enablerepo=<repo>
              In addition to the default set, query the given additional
              repository, even if it is disabled in YUM configuration.
              Can be used multiple times.

       --disablerepo=<repo>
              Do not query the given repository, even if it is enabled
              in YUM configuration.  Can be used multiple times.

       --repofrompath=<repoid>,<path/url>
              Specify a path or url to a repository (same path as in a
              baseurl) to add to the repositories for this query. This
              option can be used multiple times. If you want to view
              only the pkgs from this repository combine this with
              --repoid. The repoid for the repository is specified by
              <repoid>.

       --plugins
              Enable YUM plugin support.

       -q, --query
              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.

       --verbose
              Produce verbose output.

       -C, --cache
              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".

       --nolock
              Disable locking the yum cache. This is needed as any yum
              API caller can alter the repo. metadata cache, unless it
              is locked. This automatically enables the --cache and
              --tempcache options, to try to lower the riskiness.

       --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>, --config=<config file>
              Use alternative config file (default is /etc/yum.conf).

       --releasever=version
              Pretend the current release version is the given string.
              This is very useful when combined with --installroot. You
              can also use --releasever=/ to take the releasever
              information from outside the installroot.  Note that with
              the default upstream cachedir, of /var/cache/yum, using
              this option will corrupt your cache (and you can use
              $releasever in your cachedir configuration to stop this).

       --installroot=root
              Specifies an alternative installroot, relative to which
              all packages will be installed. Think of this like doing
              "chroot <root> yum" except using --installroot allows yum
              to work before the chroot is created.  Note: You may also
              want to use the option --releasever=/ when creating the
              installroot as otherwise the $releasever value is taken
              from the rpmdb within the installroot (and thus. will be
              empty, before creation).

       --setopt=option=value
              Set any config option in yum config or repo files. For
              options in the global config just use:
              --setopt=option=value for repo options use:
              --setopt=repoid.option=value

PACKAGE QUERY OPTIONS         top

       -i, --info
              Show general information about package similarly to "rpm
              -qi"

       -l, --list
              List files in package.

       -R, --requires
              List package dependencies.

       -R, --weak-requires
              List package weak dependencies.

       -R, --info-requires
              List package informational dependencies.

       -R, --weak-reverse-requires
              List package weak reverse dependencies.

       -R, --info-reverse-requires
              List package informational reverse dependencies.

       --resolve
              When used with --requires/--weak-requires/etc, 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.

       --srpm Operate on corresponding source RPM.

       --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. You can add
              ":date", ":day" and ":isodate" to all the tags that are a
              time, and you can add ":k", ":m", ":g", ":t" and ":h" to
              sizes. You can also specify field width as in sprintf (Eg.
              %-20{name})

       --output [text|ascii-tree|ascii-tree+|dot-tree|dot-tree+]
              Output format which can be used with --requires/--weak-
              requires/--whatrequires/--obsoletes/--conflicts. The
              variants with a + suffix are used for weak dependencies
              and will merge the stronger variants into the output.
              Default output is 'text'.

       --level [all|any int]
              In combination with --output ascii-tree|dot-tree|ascii-
              tree+|dot-tree+ this option specifies the number of level
              to print on the tree.
               Default level is 'all'.

PACKAGE SELECTION OPTIONS         top

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

       --show-duplicates
              Query all versions of packages.

       -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, look for non-explicit
              dependencies in addition to explicit ones (e.g. files and
              Provides in addition to package names).  This is the
              default.

       --exactdeps
              When used with --whatrequires, search for dependencies
              only exactly as given.  This is effectively the opposite
              of --alldeps.

       --recursive
              When used with --whatrequires, and --requires --resolve,
              query packages recursively.

       --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. Note that repoquery
              will now change yum's "arch" to the first value in the
              archlist. So "--archlist=i386,i686" will change yum's
              canonical arch to i386, but allow packages of i386 and
              i686.

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

       --installed
              Restrict query ONLY to installed pkgs - disables all repos
              and only acts on rpmdb.

GROUP QUERY OPTIONS         top

       -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.

GROUP SELECTION OPTIONS         top

       -a     Query all available groups.

       -g, --group
              Query groups instead of packages.

EXAMPLES         top

       List all packages whose name contains 'perl':
              repoquery '*perl*'

       List all packages depending on openssl:
              repoquery --whatrequires 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
                NB: This command will only work if you have repositories
              enabled which include srpms.

MISC         top

       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.

FILES         top

       As repoquery uses YUM libraries for retrieving all the
       information, it relies on YUM configuration for its default
       values like which repositories to use. Consult YUM documentation
       for details:

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

SEE ALSO         top

       yum.conf(5)
       http://yum.baseurl.org/

AUTHORS         top

       See the Authors file included with this program.

BUGS         top

       There are of course no bugs, but should you find any, you should
       first consult the FAQ section on http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/Faq
       and if unsuccessful in finding a resolution contact the mailing
       list: yum-devel@lists.baseurl.org.  To file a bug use
       http://bugzilla.redhat.com for Fedora/RHEL/Centos related bugs
       and http://yum.baseurl.org/report for all other bugs.

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the yum-utils (Yum Package Manager
       utilities) project.  Information about the project can be found
       at ⟨https://github.com/rpm-software-management/yum⟩.  It is not
       known how to report bugs for this man page; if you know, please
       send a mail to man-pages@man7.org.  This page was obtained from
       the project's upstream Git repository
       ⟨https://github.com/rpm-software-management/yum-utils.git⟩ on
       2023-12-22.  (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
       that was found in the repository was 2020-03-11.)  If you
       discover any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page,
       or you believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for
       the page, or you have corrections or improvements to the
       information in this COLOPHON (which is not part of the original
       manual page), send a mail to man-pages@man7.org

Panu Matilainen              17 October 2005                repoquery(1)

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