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A repository is the storage location of a package management or version control software. Consider adding tags for the particular software, e.g. apt, yum, git, svn.

A repository is a storage location. For package managers, it is the source of information about software available for installation. For source control software, it contains data about the history of a set of files.

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How to know from which yum repository a package has been installed?

After I have installed a package by yum (with multiple repositories configured), how can I find from which repository it has been installed? If I run yum info package-name (or yum list package-name), I can only see that the package is "installed".
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list all packages from a repository in ubuntu / debian

is there a command to see what packages are available from a certain ppa repository?
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How to enable PowerTools repository in CentOS 8?

Since I had a lot of trouble finding out how to do this anywhere, I'd like to ask, how do I enable the PowerTools repository in CentOS 8? (equivalent of CodeReady Linux Builder repo in RHEL 8)
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Disable prompts while installing a Debian package

How can i disable totally the prompts that appear while installing a Debian package, i've used all the options that i've found but there are some packages that are still prompting. I'm using this command: apt-get -y --allow-unauthenticated…
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Setting Up Git Repository on Remote Windows Server?

I have a windows server which I can access locally or remotely over the internet through remote desktop connection, etc. I want to set up a git repository (something similar to "trunk" in subversion), that can contain a series of repositories for…
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Can I have two versions of the same package in an apt repository?

I'm running Ubuntu 10.04 across my entire environment. To make code deploys easier, we are implementing a private apt repository where we can deploy builds of our code. One of the requirements of this repository will be that our QA department will…
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Best practice for proxying package repositories

I have a collection of CentOS servers in my corporate network. For security reasons, most servers do not have general outbound internet access unless it is a core functional requirement for the server. This creates a challenge when I need to update…
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Installing HAProxy on CentOS 6.3?

This is a weird one. I've installed the EPEL for CentOS 6 via # rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm The tried to install HAProxy: # yum update # yum install haproxy But receive: Loaded plugins:…
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Reprepro export could not find signing key

We have a private debian repository that was set up years ago by an earlier system admin. Packages were signed by the older key, 7610DDDE (which I had to revoke), as shown here for the root user on the repo server. # gpg…
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SVN: Where is my repository?

I'm trying to backup my SVN respository. My problem: I forgot where I put my repository on the hard disk. How can I find this? FYI: I'm using TortoiseSVN if that helps.
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Using a self-signed SSL cert for an HTTPS-based internal APT repository

I've set up a Debian repository (Ubuntu actually) for internal use with some private packages, and now want to make it available over the web to some specific servers. I would like apt-get / aptitude to connect to it using HTTPS, and because I don't…
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Use git commands with another path rather than the actual working dir

When using git add . uses the actual path where you're (incase is a git repo). How would I do for using git add, git commit and git push' outside of the working dir? Likegit add /Users/zad0xsis/my-git-repo`. Can this be achieved?
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How do I remove a repository of yum

When I search for a package in yum(centos 6), it tries to search in a repro named 'c6-media' And it gives a bunch of errors as follows file:///media/CentOS/repodata/repomd.xml: [Errno 14] Could not open/read…
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Who is the behind Webtatic repository and do you trust it

Webtatic repository has lots of useful packages for CentOS and RedHat. However the repository is very opaque and I have hard time to find information of who is behind it, appart of "Andrew Thompson", known as Andy around here. He seems to be doing…
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Best way to clean up Yum repository?

We have a custom Yum repo that our developers upload builds to. The problem is that after some time it becomes cluttered with old versions. Removing the old versions manually is quite annoying, so before we try to automate it ourselves, I wonder if…
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