The “yum history” command allows an admin to access detailed information on the history of yum transactions that have been run on a system. Yum started keeping a sqlite db of the information from each and every transaction. The history is organized by transaction id. Each time you perform a ‘yum’ command which changes your system pkgs in someway the history db is updated with this information.
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