[CentOS] Centos 6.3 - which repos to use?

Tue Jan 29 05:08:41 UTC 2013
Bry8 Star <bry8star at yahoo.com>

I've tried this command:

yum deplist gnutls --disableplugin=filter-data,priorities
--disableexcludes=all --enablerepo=\* > yum_01.txt

... that yum_01.txt file was around 202KB in my case.

Result is formatted like this:
##<...snip...>
package: gnutls.i686 2.12.22-1.fc18
	dependency: libz.so.1
		provider: zlib.i686 1.2.3-27.el6
		provider: zlib.i686 1.2.7-9.fc18
		provider: zlib.i686 1.2.3-25.el6
		provider: zlib.i686 1.2.3-27.el6
		provider: zlib.i686 1.2.3-27.el6
		provider: zlib.i686 1.2.3-25.el6
		provider: zlib.i686 1.2.3-27.el6
		provider: zlib.i686 1.2.3-25.el6
		provider: zlib.i686 1.2.3-27.el6
	dependency: libgcrypt.so.11
		provider: libgcrypt.i686 1.5.0-8.fc18
		provider: libgcrypt.i686 1.4.5-9.el6_2.2
		provider: libgcrypt.i686 1.5.0-6.fc18
		provider: libgcrypt11.i686 1.4.0-15.el6
		provider: libgcrypt.i686 1.4.5-9.el6
		provider: libgcrypt.i686 1.4.5-5.el6
		provider: libgcrypt.i686 1.4.5-3.el6
		provider: libgcrypt.i686 1.4.5-5.el6
		provider: libgcrypt.i686 1.4.5-5.el6_1.2
		provider: libgcrypt.i686 1.4.5-9.el6
		provider: libgcrypt.i686 1.4.5-9.el6_2.2
		provider: libgcrypt.i686 1.4.5-9.el6_2.2
		provider: libgcrypt.i686 1.4.5-3.el6
		provider: libgcrypt.i686 1.4.5-9.el6_2.2
	dependency: libgcrypt >= 1.2.2
		provider: libgcrypt.i686 1.5.0-8.fc18
		provider: libgcrypt.i686 1.4.5-9.el6_2.2
		provider: libgcrypt.i686 1.5.0-6.fc18
		provider: libgcrypt.i686 1.4.0-15.el6
		provider: libgcrypt.i686 1.4.5-9.el6
##<...snip...>

the problem is ... in the "provider" lines, yum is not showing repo
name, after showing lib/pkg name & version, on each line !

If repo, pkg/lib, version, arch, etc are shown & known ... Then it
would have been bit easier to build a technique what to keep and
what to update.


-- Bright Star.



Received from Johnny Hughes,, on 2013-01-28 8:17 PM:
> On 01/28/2013 01:26 PM, Nikolaos Milas wrote:
>> On 27/1/2013 5:11 μμ, Johnny Hughes wrote:
>> 
>>> Taking gtk2 as in our example here, if you wanted a new gtk2
>>> in CentOS-5.9, then you would have to rebuild the following
>>> packages:
>> A quick (?) question:
>> 
>> What is the best way to view dependencies?
>> 
>> 1. We can use yum deplist <xxx.rpm> to view dependencies of a
>> particular installed package, but we would like to limit output
>> to only *already installed* packages and not view all suitable
>> ones. Also, we would like to view dependencies as a full rpm
>> name and not as they are output by default (e.g. not
>> "glibc.x86_64 2.12-1.80.el6_3.6" but 
>> "glibc-2.12-1.80.el6_3.6.x86_64")
>> 
>> 2. Is there a way to find out the opposite, i.e. which
>> *installed* packages are dependent on a particular installed
>> package? In your example above (about gtk2), how could we have
>> produced the list of dependent-on-it packages which you have
>> kindly provided?
> 
> With respect to build and SRPMS, I do this:
> 
> I go to a place where all the distro's SRPMS (we have that place
> on vault), then I do this command:
> 
> rpm -qp --requires <name>.src.rpm
> 
> That will tell me everything that is required to build that
> individual SRPM.
> 
> However, you would also need to take every requirement and do the
> same thing to it ... in other words, find the requirements of
> each requirement.
> 
> There is no easy way to do this (that I know of) ... if I want to
> know, I do the work.
> 
> Also, if you want to develop an initial list of SRPMS that are
> impacted when changing something, you would do this inside the
> "LATEST" SRPMS (again, using gtk2 as the example):
> 
> for srpm in $(ls *.src.rpm); do requires_gtk2=$(rpm -qp
> --requires $srpm | grep "gtk2-devel"); if [ "$requires_gtk2" !=
> "" ]; then echo $srpm; fi; done
> 
> (the above is one line if wrapped)
> 
> Once you develop the list of SRPMS, you would need to develop
> another list of requirements for each requirement.
> 
> There is a yum-utility called yum-builddep that will install all
> the dependencies to build a package for you ... you can do that
> into a minimal installed VM as well.
> 
> 
> 
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