On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 14:29 -0400, Gaurav Poothia wrote: > Hi! > My current project needs me to do the following: > Given the name of an installed package to compile a list of all packages > that "IT DEPENDS ON" directly or indirectly. > > The rpm command has the -R switch which gives me requirements split into : > 1.Packages > 2.Libraries. > > For both I will have to further run another query and so on > recursively. > > YUM might have a way to find this transitive closure automatically for me > since I notice that it does list ALL packages which "DEPEND ON IT" (the > other direction of the dependency) for a given installed package...by simply > starting to uninstall and then aborting at point of confirmation ;-) > why do you need to do this? What are you trying to accomplish? I'm curious b/c it seems like you're going through a lot of work to generate a dependency tree. -sv
