On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 16:09 -0400, Gaurav Poothia wrote: > 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? writing a yum util to recursively resolve out dependencies for any given package is pretty simple. just use the routines to resolve the deps and then keep a list of things you've not yet resolved. -sv