On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Michael Schwendt wrote: > On Thu, 09 Sep 2004 07:34:27 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > > > > provide another 'some other command tool' that replaces the popt macro > > > for 'rpm --redhat-*'? > > Yes, this is essentially what I had in mind. > > +1 > > rpmdb-fedora is very useful, but is not updated after all the Fedora > Core updates unless you do that yourself with --justdb and related RPM > options. I'm starting to have funny ideas about 'repoquery' (or whatever you want to call it) which does what rpmquery does but handles seamlessly both rpmdb and repository metadata information. AND provides meaningful answers to things like '--whatrequires foo' - this is one of my "favorites": [pmatilai@chip pmatilai]$ rpm -q --whatrequires openssl libpcap-0.8.3-3 curl-7.11.1-1 openssl-devel-0.9.7a-35 w3m-0.5-3 sendmail-8.12.11-4.6 dovecot-0.99.10.6-1,FC2,1 kdelibs-3.2.2-8.FC2 [pmatilai@chip pmatilai]$ A whopping 5 packages. Yet what REALLY requires openssl: [pmatilai@chip pmatilai]$ rpm -q --whatrequires `rpm -q --provides openssl`|grep -v "no package"|sort -u|wc -l 55 [pmatilai@chip pmatilai]$ Ooops... - Panu -
