[Rpm-maint] How to get RPM requires quickly

[Florian Festi]

On 09/15/2014 02:42 PM, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On 09/13/2014 04:13 PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>>
>> We have a program[1] that needs to take a list of installed RPM
>> package names, and quickly generate all of the installed dependencies
>> (recursively).

> To get rpm do a bit more work for you, use 'rpm -e --test' to make rpm
> resolve the deps. Basically

I don't think these are same things. 'rpm -e' gives the packages
requiring the package in question while I think the original question
was for the packages required *by* the package.

Florian

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