[CentOS] Trying to find packages that depend on package X.

Fri May 26 17:22:42 UTC 2006

On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 14:06 -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
<snip>

> rpm -q --provides PACKAGE_NAME | sed 's/^/"/;s/\([^[:space:]]\) *
> $/\1"/;/=/{h;s/ =.*$/"/;G}' | xargs rpm -q --whatrequires | grep -v -E
> '^no package'

Still needs some work, Ran it here and only got 38 packages, s/b 207
here. Timing on 1st run was

   real    0m0.701s
   user    0m0.186s
   sys     0m0.019s

By the time we get 207 pkgs, I suspect a little overhead penalty.

Thx
-- 
Bill
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