Could not identify which package is responsible for installing avahi under RHEL6.3.

mig13 · 09-06-2012, 06:34 AM

Hi All ,

i wanted to know which package in RHEl6.3 is responsible for installaing avahi. i can remove avahi after getting installed but i really want to find a way how to stop it before hand.

I am using customise now option to install additional packages.

Thanks,
Gaurav

DavidMcCann · 09-06-2012, 11:33 AM

It's a package in itself.
rpm -q --whatprovides avahi
avahi-0.6.25-11.el6.i686

mig13 · 09-07-2012, 12:50 AM

Hi David ,

Thanks for reply.

I know about this package . But i want to know when we install RHEL 6.3 how do we stop this package to get installed.
That means under which additional package it falls. I am trying to customise my machine and i do not want avahi.

I hope we crack it down really quick.

Thanks ,

Gaurav

evo2 · 09-07-2012, 12:57 AM

Hi,

I think you can use "yum provides" to find what *uninstalled* packages would provide specific files.
For example:

Code:

yum provides '*/avahi'

Then you can blacklist that package by putting in an exclude line it in the .repo file.
Eg.

Code:

exclude=foo

HTH,

Evo2.

DavidMcCann · 09-07-2012, 11:14 AM

I suspect it's in Base system - Base
http://www.centos.org/docs/5/html/5....up-details.png
If it's one of the optional packages, you could prevent its installation; if not, you just have to remove it.

mig13 · 09-07-2012, 12:59 PM

Thanks David,

I tried to remove optional packages manually including the base system package, but in vein. avahi always gets installed.
Anyways i will give it a last try. But the research i did for resolving this issue helped me to learn a lot.

I will post my findings here. So that it can help somebody like me.

Thanks,

Gaurav