[CentOS-devel] anaconda dependency calculation?

Nicholas Byrne

nicholas.byrne at quadriga.com
Fri Mar 16 17:39:05 UTC 2007


Thanks Jeff i'll do that, should have thought of that myself really. Out 
of interest (if you know) is there a "proper" way though (even if it's 
not released/stable etc)?


Jeff Johnson wrote:
> Easiest solution is likely to just generate a hdlist (using genhdlist) 
> and do what you did before.
>
> There's a copy of genhdlist in rpm sources if you need.
>
> 73 de Jeff
>
> On Mar 16, 2007, at 1:25 PM, Nicholas Byrne wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to find a tool that calculates all dependencies for a 
>> specific package or group of packages for use with CentOS 5 (beta) 
>> with the intention of putting together a custom single CD build of 
>> CentOS 5. With CentOS 4 i used a python script that used the hdrlist 
>> module to find all dependencies which borrowed code from a number of 
>> sources.
>>
>> I've looked at yumdownloader and how it checks dependencies (using 
>> the --resolve option) but if i pass it the list of packages defined 
>> in say the Base and the Core yum groups which generally form an 
>> absolute minimal install i end up with about 200 packages. If i do a 
>> custom install (using beta 1 disks) and deselect everything i end up 
>> with over 300 packages.
>>
>> So i'm guessing anaconda calculates dependencies in a slightly 
>> different way, can anyone point me to files/code where i should be 
>> looking to find out?
>>
>> Thanks very much in advance for help
>> Nick
>>
>>
>>
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