-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 seth vidal wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 16:36 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> seth vidal wrote: >>> On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 14:12 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote: >>>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>>> Hash: SHA1 >>>> >>>> This [1] is a rather ugly dependency checker for any number of >>>> repositories. It uses yum to search for requirements that cannot be >>>> resolved. >>>> >>>> I thought maybe because there's no dependency checking yet on updates >>>> and such (don't know the details), and I needed this anyway, I'd just >>>> dump it here and collect some useful comments. >>> How does this differ from repoclosure in yum-utils? >>> >> I'm assuming that if I use repoclosure with the system's yum >> configuration, it tells me what it can't resolve just like when I would >> yum install the package with missing dependencies -so correct me if I'm >> wrong to assume that: >> >> A random example from repoclosure: >> >> # repoclosure -c /etc/yum.conf -a i386 -n >> [...snip...] >> package: dkms - 2.0.16-1.fc7.noarch from fedora >> unresolved deps: >> kernel-devel >> [...snip...] >> >> # yum install dkms >> [...snip...] >> Installing: >> dkms noarch 2.0.16-1.fc7 fedora 84 k >> Installing for dependencies: >> kernel-devel i686 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 updates 4.7 M >> [...snip...] >> >> I'm not sure where it differs, but apparently repoclosure does some >> things different from yum, as I'm sure this ugly depchecker does too. >> > > repoclosure doesn't care about your local rpmdb. It takes a look at all > the repositories you have and makes sure you have depset closure across > all of them. > > -sv > > Right that I figured, but what I don't understand is it reports dkms has missing requirement 'kernel-devel'. - -- Kind regards, Jeroen van Meeuwen - -kanarip - -- http://www.kanarip.com/ RHCE, LPIC-2, MCP, CCNA C6B0 7FB4 43E6 CDDA D258 F70B 28DE 9FDA 9342 BF08 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGyvoaKN6f2pNCvwgRAnWIAKCdn59b4JCQC/GToYkl8DsE++ffggCeNnwK Z7v7VAeaKTgS5bLgkrs3hv0= =SN+z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
