On Sunday 22 December 2002 12:40 pm, you wrote: > Except this won't do what Rich wants, either. He wants to know what other > packages depend on "this one." The only way to figure that out, from what > I can see, is to query every single package in the RPM database, and > search/grep for "this one." Now, it would probably be a good idea to save > the contents of that first phase so that you don't have to repeat it again, > since it will probably take a while. I believe this is similar to what > rpmfind.net has done for various distributions, except they've done it at a > file level. > > But, over and above that, I think Rich is asking how to do this during an > install, not on a running system. Since there is not an established RPM > database to query against, I can't think of any way to do that, except > query all the _packages_ that are on the install media (on a currently > running system of some kind) before starting the install. Either way, it > would involve a certain amount of work, to say the least. > > Mark Post
Hey Mark, There are --whatrequires and --whatprovides switches to the rpm command that will do reverse dependency searching as well. I would suggest using man or info to get the full documentation of what the rpm command will do. When I first read Rich's original post it looked like he wanted to search for installed packages and look at the dependencies of one or more of these, this being the case the rpm -qa | grep <whatever> and rpm -qR <packagename> should be sufficient. These commands wrapped up in a perl script could provide an interesting solution, providing there is an ongoing need for this type of query. Also, Rich mentions deleted packages and that should only happen post install. In looking at this post again, I see that he does mention that certain packages are de-selected and he gets dependency warnings. Once these warning dialogs are bypassed or satisfied, and the installation completes, the rpm commands will be useful in getting the information he wants, and with that information he can install the missing packages. Rich - sorry if I misunderstood your original post. Steve
