On 5/11/05, Aaron Hanson <a.hanson@xxxxxx> wrote: > Hi All - > > Anybody know of a guide to the rpm debug output? I'm trying to > understand things like this: > No, but I would be willing to answer specific questions about the output if I know the answer...I assume others would be also. > D: ========== successors only (51955284 bytes) > D: 33 33 0 1 1 +dev-control-1-55 > D: 34 1 0 9 1 -httpd-2.0.46-44.ent.2 > D: 35 1 0 9 1 -httpd-devel-2.0.46-44.ent.2 > D: 36 1 0 11 1 -commons-beanutils-1.6.1-10 > D: 37 2 0 14 3 -commons-digester-1.4.1-10 > D: 38 0 0 12 0 -commons-collections-2.1-9 > Drat, in this case all I know is its trying to give output concering the topological sort of the packages by dependencies. I'll try to take a peak at the source today and give you a specic answer concerning the + and -'s and of course the numbers which as IRC are things like successors, precessors and depth, but don't remember off hand which is which (search for topological sort and Knuth to get a pretty good explanation of what those values mean...not specific to rpm of cource, but basically the topo sort is right from Knuth). > What's the difference between a plus and a minus entry? I'm trying to do > an aided install (--aid). Rpm decides httpd and httpd-devel are needed; > but then errors-out because they are already installed at the same exact > version and release level. Doesn't make sense. > > -Aaron > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list >
