rpm dependencies

gandhis · 11-01-2004, 12:46 PM

hi all,

I m trying a command
rpm -q <packagename> -R

but i suppose it gives just first level dependency. i want to know if there is a command which can give all level dependecies for a given package name?

Thanks
seema

acid_kewpie · 11-01-2004, 01:50 PM

not really, as it can't know, and essentially you will end up with a HUGE amount of dependencies, as many end user RPM's can cover more than 10 levell of dependencies.

i mean essentially you couold write a basic recursive script to feed the command output back into the input...

Code:

for pkg in `rpm -qR $package`
do
  echo $pkg
  this_script $pkg
done

but... yuck!

gandhis · 11-01-2004, 11:00 PM

hi Chris,

Thank you very much for your reply.

I m having hard time in running recursive shell script:
this is wht i was trying to do but failure can anybody help me?

#echo "called by $1"
for pkg in `rpm -qR $1`
do
if [[ "$1" == "package" ]];
# if the parameter is 'package' we were called by an errorneous package
then
# exit with status 0
exit 0;
else
echo $pkg
# TODO: get the status of the call 'bash test $pkg'
if ...
# TODO: if the status was 0
then
# TODO: return by status 1 - we need to finish the parent's call
exit 1;
# TODO: if the status was 1
else
# TODO: continue the loop with the next package name
;
fi;
fi
done
#echo "end $1"
exit 1

# NOTE: status 0 means error, status 1 means success