Where to find packages names and versions for RedHat?

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oliver picture oliver · Sep 26, 2008 · Viewed 21k times · Source

How can I find out whether a specific RedHat release (RHEL4, RHEL5...) contains a certain package (or a certain version of a package)? For Debian and Ubuntu, there's packages.debian.org and packages.ubuntu.com; is there a similar web site for RedHat?

Note: I don't want to have to install all the releases just to check some package version :-)

Answer

Torsten Marek picture Torsten Marek · Sep 26, 2008

The best you can do, as it seems, is to check the FTP directories of the source packages:

Keep in mind that RedHat has the habit of patching software to hell and back, so the version number might not have to much in common with the actual release, especially for the kernel.

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