On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 17:32 -0400, Gaurav Poothia wrote: > > > repo-graph from yum-utils *might* be a useful starting point .. or then > > not :) > > > > Well thank you very much...if I understand the output correctly: > repo-graph shows all the DIRECT dependencies for EACH package. > > Now what I need to do is change that to do it recursively. > Well if I am right so far then all I *really* need to do is to learn > Python ;-) > Thanks for all the help guys! repo-graph prints out the direct dependencies for each package and leaves the rest to for graphviz to figure out. What I originally had in mind when starting repo-graph was a kind of dependency analyzator which could answer exactly questions like yours: "give me the n'th order of dependencies for this package" but got seriously sidetracked since then. If you remove the graphviz-sugaring (like colors etc) from the output it'll print out fairly straightforward pkgA -> pkgB, pkgC pkgB -> pkgX, Y pkgX -> pkgZ ..etc dependency info which can be processed reasonably easily with any reasonable language or even shell script. Let me know if you need help, I'm still interested in the dependency analyzator thingie, just haven't gotten around to do anything about it :) - Panu -
