Pear-down RPMS dir

[Mathew Rowley]

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I came into a similar problem, and wrote this php script that you can
run via command line; it will give you all deps based on rpm -qpR and
rpm -qR commands.  Although i never used it, feel free to do what you like with it. Hope it helps. 


On Wed, 27 Dec 2006 12:07:14 -0700 (MST)
"Matt Sturtz" <rh-kickstart at matthouse.com> wrote:

> Hi--
> 
> I wanted pear down the RPMS directory after I was done editing
> comps.xml to fit my needs.  A lot of packages are no longer required,
> and I wanted to eliminate them.  I started with a script that simply
> removes all packages that aren't mentioned in my customized comps.xml
> -- but that eliminates packages like bind-libs, which I know is
> needed to satisfy a dependancy, even though it isn't mentioned in
> comps.xml (bind-utils depends on libdns, which is provided by
> bind-libs).
> 
> Anybody know of a tool I can use to remove the packages that aren't
> required while leaving those that are, and those that satisfy
> dependancies for those that are?  The idea of querying dependancies
> for every single package doesn't thrill me...  Kickstarting a box,
> and then removing all the packages that didn't end up on that box
> sounds even worse...
> 
> -Matt-
> 
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