Getting information from URPMQ
Here are some options to get the information from the packages. When you are on the command line and plug some options to urpmi so we can know the description of the package.
urpmq -i package
The i is for the info of the packages, this displays the name, versions, release, group, size and summary.
The summary will have the packages information.
[user@localhost user]$ urpmq -i urpmi
Name : urpmi
Version : 4.4
Release : 37mdk
Group : System/Configuration/Packaging
Size : 2141739 Architecture: noarch
Summary : User mode rpm install
It can also show some descriptions of the updates of that specific packages and why you needed the upgrade which is pretty cool in case you need that information. I did a
urpmq -i wget
and I got the following.
Last updated : Thu Oct 13 15:12:45 2005
Update importance : security
Reason for update :
A vulnerability in libcurl's NTLM function can overflow a stack-based
buffer if given too long a user name or domain name in NTLM
authentication is enabled and either a) pass a user and domain name to
libcurl that together are longer than 192 bytes or b) allow (lib)curl
to follow HTTP redirects and the new URL contains a URL with a user and
domain name that together are longer than 192 bytes.
Wget, as of version 1.10, uses the NTLM code from libcurl and is also
vulnerable to this issue.
The updated packages have been patched to address this issue.