On Jun 27, 2005, at 6:15 AM, Mischa Aizatulin wrote:
for a given package, I would like to output a list of all installed
packages that it depends on. Is there any possibility to do that?
Since --whatrequires and --whatprovides don't seem to do what I want
I usually do a -e --test (very important: the --test tells RPM to
just do a dry run and not to touch the disk). Not the best or safest
way to do it but a quick hack nonetheless without any required coding.
Again, the --test is the key here so you don't actually erase any
packages.
root@(none):~# rpm -e --test bash
error: Failed dependencies:
/bin/bash is needed by (installed)
shadow-20000902-7.0.0.0300532
/bin/bash is needed by (installed) rpm-build-4.1-8x.1.pepper
/bin/bash is needed by (installed) console-
tools-0.2.3-4.0.0.0300532
/bin/bash is needed by (installed) ntp-4.1.2-1.0.0.0300532
/bin/bash is needed by (installed) autofs-3.1.7-4.0.0.0300532
/bin/bash is needed by (installed) fbgetty-0.1.4-2.0.0.0300532
/bin/bash is needed by (installed) libposixtime-
examples-2.4.20-2.0.0.0300532
/Sean/
