On Thu, 9 Sep 2004 12:58:17 +0300 (EEST), Panu Matilainen wrote: > 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... Yes, that's due to automatically generated dependencies on the openssl library sonames (libssl.so.4 and libcrypto.so.4) $ rpm -q --whatrequires $(rpm -q --provides openssl | grep lib) | wc -l 77 An interesting part about creating a new repoquery/rpmquery would be to create high-level queries which "know" how to find out which packages depend on "openssl" rather than letting the user find out complex queries like above. -- Fedora Core release 2 (Tettnang) - Linux 2.6.8-1.521 loadavg: 1.15 1.12 1.05
