[Rpm-maint] rpm feature

[Adam Jackson]

On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 08:53 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 00:30 -0700, JD wrote:
> > Greetings all,
> > Is there a way to query the database to list the packages
> > that depend on a given package?
> > I checked the man page, and I do  not see such an option.
> > I see the option --requires, which is great - but would like the
> > converse of --requires,  such as: --required_by
> 
> rpm -q --whatrequires pkgname will tell you what specifically requires
> that pkg name - but not all the things that pkg provides.

For that, you would do:

% rpm --quiet -q --whatrequires $(rpm -q --provides pkgname) | sort -u

The uniquifying step being because rpm will print the list of consumers
for _each_ thing provided by pkgname.

- ajax
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