Re: [CentOS] determining what depends on a rpm

Am 16.12.2018 um 00:07 schrieb Gordon Messmer gordon.messmer@gmail.com:

On 12/15/18 1:05 PM, Frank Cox wrote:

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Ultimately it would be very useful to have some kind of a tool that would generate a report from the rpms installed on a system and tell you exactly what depends on what else. Among other things you could use that report to remove stuff that's not needed in any installation.

While not a simple answer, this bash function will provide what you're looking for:

whatrequires () { (rpm -q --qf '%{NAME}\n' "$1" ; rpm -q --provides "$1" ) | tr \n \0 | xargs -0 rpm -q --whatrequires ; }

or this one :-)

rpm -ev --test PACKAGENAME

will list all packages that require PACKAGENAME

-- LF