2009/4/4 Kai Schaetzl <maillists at conactive.com> > I found that lm_sensors got installed because of a dependency on my first > Xen VM that I updated to 5.3. lm_sensors doesn't make sense in a VM. I > thought, ok let's check after the update who wants it. However: > > rpm -q --whatrequires lm_sensors > no package requires lm_sensors > > (same for --triggeredby with lm_sensors or the packages below) > > Trying to remove lm_sensors reveals these packages: > > Removing: > lm_sensors i386 2.10.7-4.el5 installed > 1.8 M > Removing for dependencies: > cacti noarch 0.8.7d-1.el5.rf installed > 5.1 M > net-snmp i386 1:5.3.2.2-5.el5 installed > 2.8 M > net-snmp-utils i386 1:5.3.2.2-5.el5 installed > 342 k > php-snmp i386 5.1.6-23.el5 installed > 24 k > > But trying to remove any of them doesn't show a dependency on lm_sensors. > > How can I find out what triggered the installation of lm_sensors in the > upgrade? > rpm -q --provides lm_sensors config(lm_sensors) = 2.10.7-4.el5 libsensors.so.3()(64bit) lm_sensors = 2.10.7-4.el5 rpm -q --requires net-snmp <snip> libsensors.so.3()(64bit) <snip> requires are not always a package name... d -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20090405/2ce566fc/attachment-0005.html>