-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 12:35:40PM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > Quick search in bout "man yum" and "man rpm" shows how to find what > package X depends upon, but not what depends upon package X. Of course, > we could get a deplist for everything but I'm *guessing* that take more > overhead and grep too. > > "yum remove" tells us. Then we just have to remember to say "No, don't > remove". Am I missing something... like I missed that big Google box on > the archives? > > Anyway, if I haven't overlooked something, I was thinking that this > might be a good enhancement request for yum's buglist. Do like remove > but skip making us reliably answer "no". > > OK. Did I miss something? Is this a feature that others would find > handy? Should I get it on a yum bug list? Just needs a little magic: rpm -q --provides PACKAGE_NAME | sed 's/^/"/;s/\([^[:space:]]\) *$/\1"/' | xargs rpm -q --whatrequires | grep -v -E '^no package' ex: rpm -q --provides exim | sed 's/^/"/;s/\([^[:space:]]\) *$/\1"/' | xargs rpm -q --whatrequires | grep -v -E '^no package' []s - -- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at suespammers.org> "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEdzOGpdyWzQ5b5ckRAv/sAKCjYtnIMB4Qm71SIKh172SjYRps5ACfdaqB MpTD51Vg8P2P+UWP+I9BdXE= =qOTv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----