repoclosure.py

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Sat Feb 5 15:09:13 UTC 2005


On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 09:29 +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> On 02/05/2005 12:17:43 AM, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > 
> > I think it works okay, it seems to at least :)
> 
> *snip*
> package: httpd - 2.0.52-3.1.i386 from updates-released
>   unresolved deps:
>      /usr/share/magic.mime
> package: libxml2-python - 2.6.16-3.i386 from updates-released
>   unresolved deps:
>      /usr/lib/python2.3
> package: openmotif - 2.2.3-6.FC3.1.i386 from updates-released
>   unresolved deps:
>      /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
> 
> [root at devel bin]# rpm -qf /usr/share/magic.mime
> file-4.12-1.FC3.1
> You have new mail in /var/spool/mail/mpeters
> [root at devel bin]# rpm -qf /usr/share/magic.mime
> file-4.12-1.FC3.1
> [root at devel bin]# rpm -qf /usr/lib/python2.3
> python-2.3.4-11
> [root at devel bin]# rpm -qf /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XKeysymDB
> xorg-x11-libs-6.8.1-12.FC3.21
> [root at devel bin]#

It doesn't, at all, read things from your rpmdb. It uses ONLY the
information out in the repositories. So just b/c something on your
system resolves it - doesn't mean that there is something in a
repository that does.

-sv





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