Thanks, Steve, that tells me what I want to know.

On Sunday 22 December 2002 01:42 pm, you wrote:
> On Sunday 22 December 2002 10:40 am, Steven Adams wrote:
> > On Sunday 22 December 2002 06:56 am, you wrote:
> > > When installing SLES7 and having picked a configuration.  If a package
> > > is de-selected from that configuration a dependencies dialog will come
> > > up indicating that other packages depend on it.  How does one go about
> > > determining which package(s) depend upon a deleted package?  The F2
> > > (info) screen is no help, it just tells me what I already know.
> >
> > Hey Rich,
> >
> > From a telnet or ssh session you can use "rpm -qaR | grep <<package>>" to
> > search all entries in the package database and diaplay their
> > dependencies. Forgoing the "grep <<package>>" will list all installed
> > packages that the RPM database knows about.
> >
> > Hope that helps,
> >
> > Steve
>
> Rich,
> This is not correct and will not return the expected information.  You can,
> however, use "rpm -qR <<packagename>>" reliably. Using "rpm -qa" will
> return a list of all package names known to the RPM database.
>
> Sorry for the original misinformation,
>
> Steve

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