On Wed, 16 Jun 2010, seth vidal wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 09:44 -0400, Adam Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 08:53 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 00:30 -0700, JD wrote:
Greetings all,
Is there a way to query the database to list the packages
that depend on a given package?
I checked the man page, and I do not see such an option.
I see the option --requires, which is great - but would like the
converse of --requires, such as: --required_by
rpm -q --whatrequires pkgname will tell you what specifically requires
that pkg name - but not all the things that pkg provides.
For that, you would do:
% rpm --quiet -q --whatrequires $(rpm -q --provides pkgname) | sort -u
The uniquifying step being because rpm will print the list of consumers
for _each_ thing provided by pkgname.
but you'll need to do every file in the pkg, too.
b/c of file-requires.
One possibility is "abusing" --test with erasure, eg:
$ rpm -e --test <pkg>
To get just the depending package names something like this works:
$ rpm -e --test <pkg> 2>&1 | tail -n +2 |awk '{print $NF'}
- Panu -
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