well I'm actually working on a new security infrastructure as part of my research where if the integrity of one "trusted" package is compromised I trace the other parts of the system that are potentially compromised. any ideas on how i can find the dependencies? On Wed, 5 Apr 2006, seth vidal wrote: > 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 > > >
