On 06/16/2010 11:30 AM, James Antill wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 14:09 -0400, rarob@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
Hello all,
I'm trying to generate a minimal list of required packages in order to
install a particular software package (which itself consists of several
packages). Does anyone have a script (shell or python preferred) that
when given one or more package names, generates a list of the other
packages that would be required to install it?
I know I can do 'rpm -Uvh --test<package names...>' to generate a list
of packages that are missing and would need to be installed before I can
install '<package names...>, but I'm looking for something that would
tell me the exhaustive list of all required package names. So far my
google-fu has been lacking....
The usual way I do this on F-13 is:
yum install mypkg --instalroot=/tmp/test-install-mypkg --release=13
...that'll give you the list of packages and the size (according to the
rpms) they'll take when installed. You can even run the command to get
the exact installed size.
Nice idea - except rarob is not looking for the size but
the minimal list of required deps.
Why not pass the output through a script that will keep only
the names of the required packages (including their versions),
then pipe it through sort and pipe that through uniq
and you're done.
Finally, in the output of uniq,
If you see same package name listed more than once,
then the required version numbers are not the same -
which means you have 2 or more packages that require
package X of different release versions.
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