repoclosure.py

[Richard Hally]

seth vidal wrote:

>Hey,
> I just wrote a script using the yum modules to check to see if a set of
>repositories have dependency closure for all packages in the
>repositories.
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>it's very simple and obvious but it has some nice results:
>I ran:
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>cutter:~$ python ./repoclosure.py development
>Not running a root, might not be able to import all of cache
>Reading in repository metadata - please wait....
>Checking Dependencies
>Repos looked at: 1
>   development
>Num Packages in Repos: 2663
>package: openoffice.org - 1.1.3-2.7.i386 from development
>  unresolved deps:
>     libedataserver.so.3
>     libebook.so.8
>package: gnome-python2-nautilus - 2.6.0-5.i386 from development
>  unresolved deps:
>     libnautilus.so.2
>package: struts11-webapps-tomcat5 - 1.1-1jpp_2fc.noarch from development
>  unresolved deps:
>     tomcat5
>package: nautilus-media - 0.8.1-4.i386 from development
>  unresolved deps:
>     libnautilus.so.2
>package: evolution-connector - 2.0.3-1.i386 from development
>  unresolved deps:
>     libcamel.so.0
>     libedata-book.so.1
>     libedata-cal.so.5
>     libedataserver.so.3
>     libgal-a11y-2.2.so.1
>     libgal-2.2.so.1
>     libebook.so.8
>     libecal.so.6
>
>so that's kinda cool b/c now we know what packages simply aren't going
>to resolve out in development right now if you tried to install or
>update to them.
>
>http://linux.duke.edu/yum/download/misc/repoclosure.py
>
>I think it works okay, it seems to at least :)
>
>You run it like:
>repoclosure.py repoid repoid repoid
>
>or if you want it to check your default repositories that you have
>enabled in your yum configuration then just run:
>repoclosure.py
>
>You need to have yum 2.1.13 installed to really test it.
>
>The only other thing you might want to do is either:
> 1. run repoclosure.py as root
> 2. run yum makecache as root with the repositories you want to use
>enabled.
>
>thanks,
>-sv
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That's neat!! thanks,
Now if we can only get someone to use it to prod the people responsible 
for fixing the "unresolved deps" fixed.

Richard