[nylug-talk] Tool to find rpm dependancies?

Martin A. Brown martin-nylug at wonderfrog.net
Mon May 19 17:59:01 EDT 2003


Peter,

 : > What's wrong with:
 : > rpm -qp --requires filename-version.rpm
 : >
 : > Between that and --provides, you can build a dependency graph.
 :
 : Just the manual nature of the task and the possible instability of the
 : interface.  Its not a bad idea at all, I'm just hoping for something
 : like rpm2html but that, you know, works.

Your expectations are entirely too high!   :)  Why should you expect
that a tool works?  Oh.  Right.  This is linux.

I'm using rpm2html-1.5-1 with rpm-4.0.2 on an older system without
too much trouble.

Is there anything in particular I can help you debug?

-Martin



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