new topic: quick and dirty rpm related tools

On Tue 10 Sep 2002 at 10:14, Greg Kurtzer ([email protected]) wrote:
>Very cool! I like the methodology for obtaining the requirement of having a
>package installed, but the next problem to solve is to compare its output
>($responce) with the package that you want to install to make sure all 'is
>needed by' are met.

I'm not sure I understand what you mean here. This little script just lists
all the packages on which no others depend. I use it to scan for obsoleted
stuff once in a while. Sometimes the folks at RedHat decide that some
package I use should require some other package. When I upgrade, I also
need that extra package. Then later, they remove that dependency so the
extra package is no longer required. But if I didn't notice the change, I
will keep upgrading the extra package with newer versions, just because it
is installed, even though it is not needed anymore. With this list, I can
check if there are packages that can be removed without trouble, ie. without
causing unresolved dependencies.

Kimiko