Re: [Rpm-maint] rpm feature

2010-06-21 Thread Greg_Swift
While, not always getting package names, I've always just done something like this with just rpm: rpm -e --test package Yum will give you the package names I believe: yum remove package But, tell it no if it asks. -greg Greg Swift Sent with mobile device, please pardon errors.

Re: [Rpm-maint] rpm feature

2010-06-17 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, seth vidal wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 09:44 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 08:53 -0400, seth vidal wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 00:30 -0700, JD wrote: Greetings all, Is there a way to query the database to list the packages that depend on a given

Re: [Rpm-maint] rpm feature

2010-06-16 Thread seth vidal
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 00:30 -0700, JD wrote: Greetings all, Is there a way to query the database to list the packages that depend on a given package? I checked the man page, and I do not see such an option. I see the option --requires, which is great - but would like the converse of

Re: [Rpm-maint] rpm feature

2010-06-16 Thread seth vidal
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 09:44 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 08:53 -0400, seth vidal wrote: On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 00:30 -0700, JD wrote: Greetings all, Is there a way to query the database to list the packages that depend on a given package? I checked the man page,

Re: [Rpm-maint] rpm feature

2010-06-16 Thread James Antill
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 00:30 -0700, JD wrote: Greetings all, Is there a way to query the database to list the packages that depend on a given package? I checked the man page, and I do not see such an option. I see the option --requires, which is great - but would like the converse of

Re: [Rpm-maint] rpm feature request

2007-08-01 Thread Panu Matilainen
On Tue, 31 Jul 2007, seth vidal wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 09:47 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: There are a number of other places as well where bitfield is used: tsflags, vsflags, verifyflags (once the verification api gets done) etc, if something is to be done about them I think it should

Re: [Rpm-maint] rpm feature request

2007-07-31 Thread seth vidal
On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 09:47 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: There are a number of other places as well where bitfield is used: tsflags, vsflags, verifyflags (once the verification api gets done) etc, if something is to be done about them I think it should be a generic bitfield wrapper object

[Rpm-maint] rpm feature request

2007-07-30 Thread seth vidal
Would it be possible in some future rpm python interface to get rid of the horrible setVsFLAGS bitmask and just have the items be attributes you set or unset in the ts object? ts = rpm.TransactionSet() ts.gpgcheck = False ts.hdrcheck = True ts.installroot = '/some/place' etc. etc I know 'being