DNF repoquery Plugin

Query package information from Yum repositories.

Synopsis

dnf repoquery [<select-options>] [<query-options>] [<pkg-name>] dnf repoquery --querytags

Description

repoquery searches the available Yum repositories for selected packages and displays the requested information about them. It is an equivalent of rpm -q for remote repositories.

Select Options

Together with <pkg-name>, control what packages are displayed in the output. If <pkg-name> is given, the set of resulting packages is limited to the ones with a matching name (globbing supported), else all packages are considered.

--arch <arch>

Limit the resulting set only to packages of arch <arch>.

--repoid <id>

Limit the resulting set only to packages from repo identified by <id>.

--whatprovides <capability>

Limit the resulting set only to packages that provide <capability>.

--whatrequires <capability>

Limit the resulting set only to packages that require <capability>.

Query Options

Set what information is displayed about each package.

The following are mutually exclusive, i.e. at most one can be specified. If no query option is given, matching packages are displayed in the standard NEVRA notation.

--conflicts

Display capabilities that the package conflicts with. Same as --qf "%{conflicts}.

-i, --info

Show detailed information about the package.

--obsoletes

Display capabilities that the package obsoletes. Same as --qf "%{obsoletes}.

--provides

Display capabilities provided by the package. Same as --qf "%{provides}.

--qf <format>, --queryformat <format>

Custom display format. <format> is a string to output for each matched package. Every occurrence of %{<tag>} within is replaced by corresponding attribute of the package. List of recognized tags can be displayed by running dnf repoquery --querytags.

--requires

Display capabilities that the package depends on. Same as --qf "%{requires}.

Examples

Display NEVRAS of all available packages matching light*:

dnf repoquery 'light*'

Display requires of all ligttpd packages:

dnf repoquery --requires lighttpd

Display name, architecture and the containing repository of all lighttpd packages:

dnf repoquery --queryformat '%{name}.%{arch} : %{reponame}' lighttpd

Display all available packages providing “webserver”:

dnf repoquery --whatprovides webserver

Display all available packages providing “webserver” but only for “i686” architecture:

dnf repoquery --whatprovides webserver --arch i686