>Would it be possible to map out the package dependencies in Fedora by >doing rpm queries and forming a directed graph of the results? (by using >graphviz or something like that) Yes you can. rpmgraph will give you the "runtime" dependencies. But if you are looking for the build dependencies, the Rookery build system has a tool in it for this purpose. http://www.web-insights.net/rookery/ What you will need to do is setup a repo of all the srpms. Then do the prep for build, and maybe even the check for build. Go into the analyze menu and it can do the whole repo, or just 1 package's dependencies. The 1 package can give you either the dependencies from that package back to nothing, or you can see what depends on that package, or both. This removes the clutter and lets you see the relationships that a particular package has. I have an example for mkinitrd here: http://www.web-insights.net/rookery/mkinitrd.dep.gz and server portion of FC3: http://www.web-insights.net/rookery/fc3.ps.gz I have tools halfway complete to really tighten up the dependencies. Both in terms of build and runtime. I will try to finish these during the FC5 development cycle to get correct dependency information added back to the packages. -Steve Grubb __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
