On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 16:13 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > 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. repo-graph from yum-utils *might* be a useful starting point .. or then not :) - Panu -