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repoquery(1) repoquery(1)
repoquery - query information from Yum repositories
repoquery [options] <item ...>
repoquery -a [options]
repoquery is a program for querying information from YUM
repositories similarly to rpm queries.
--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
-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'.
-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.
-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, --group
Query groups instead of packages.
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.
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.
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/
yum.conf(5)
http://yum.baseurl.org/
See the Authors file included with this program.
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.
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
2025-08-11. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
that was found in the repository was 2020-03-11.) If you discover
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Panu Matilainen 17 October 2005 repoquery(1)
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