Re: Getting dependencies from spec files

[Panu Matilainen <pmatilai welho com>]

On Tue, 18 Nov 2003, Eli Carter wrote:

> All,
> 
> Is there a way to get rpmbuild to display the BuildPreReqs given a spec 
> file, but without initiating a build?
> And then, what about PreReqs and Requires?

Not really. To some extent you can get PreReqs and Requires out of a spec 
with 'rpm -q --specfile --requires foo.spec' but that (obviously) doesn't 
include automatically generated dependencies and for build dependencies I 
don't think there's a way to get that out of a spec file.

That said, "mach" does exactly that by parsing the spec manually, if you 
wish you could extract the relevant code from there... 
http://thomas.apestaart.org/projects/mach/

	- Panu -