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. -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
