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. - ajax
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