On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Mark Post 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.

Red Hat Linux has a database of all packages that can be queried using
'--redhatrequires'

I don't know whether other rpm-using distroes support this, or what
keyword they use.


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Cheers
John.

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