Re: getting all dependencies recursively

Armijn Hemel wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 
>>>"given a package name, find all packages the package depends on
>>>recursively" (assuming a database with all the package information is
>>>available).
>>>
>>>So for example if I'd need the dependencies for "mutt" it would go all
>>>the way down to glibc-common, basesystem, etc.
>>>
>>>Such a program would be very convenient for example if you want to
>>>install a program in a chroot environment with RPM (with --root) and want
>>>to know all packages it needs.
>>
>>Yum supports --root so you could do
>>
>>mkdir -p /some/where/root/var/lib/rpm
>>rpm --root /some/where/root --initdb
>>yum --root /some/where/root install mutt
>>
>>That should all work OTOH, just set your yum.conf up with at your repo, and run yum-arch over it.
> 
> 
> Ehrm, no that's not entirely what I meant. I don't need to install the
> packages, I just need a list of packages...

You need the notional "--dry-run" argument, which yum didn't have last I 
looked.

Tres.
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