On Wednesday, November 2, 2016 5:51:51 PM CET Pavel Raiskup wrote:
> Consider we have package 'foo-libs' that provides set of libraries.
>
> How do I get all dependant packages (for batch rebuild of dependencies after
> package update)? Something which takes soft dependencies into account, too.
>
> Some packages might depend on 'foo-libs' explicitly, some depend on soname
> (implicitly), some depend on particular file within package (say
> /usr/libexec/libfoohelper).
>
> Is there facility within 'dnf repoquery' that gives ultimate answer? I can do
> sub-queries later do pick the important rebuild candidates.
>
> Also, I would be curious about "ultimate" repoquery to get list of SOURCE
> dependants, e.g. on 'foo-devel'.
Is there something similar to 'dnf repoquery --whatrequires foo-libs --all-deps'
in RPM? See the following:
$ rpm -q --whatrequires libarchive
no package requires libarchive
$ sudo dnf remove libarchive
Dependencies resolved.
Error: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: dnf.
Thanks,
Pavel
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