Ugly dependency checker

[Jeroen van Meeuwen]

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Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
>> On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 14:12 +0200, Jeroen van Meeuwen wrote:
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>>> This [1] is a rather ugly dependency checker for any number of
>>> repositories. It uses yum to search for requirements that cannot be
>>> resolved.
>>>
>>> I thought maybe because there's no dependency checking yet on updates
>>> and such (don't know the details), and I needed this anyway, I'd just
>>> dump it here and collect some useful comments.
>> How does this differ from repoclosure in yum-utils?
> 
> 
> I'm assuming that if I use repoclosure with the system's yum
> configuration, it tells me what it can't resolve just like when I would
> yum install the package with missing dependencies -so correct me if I'm
> wrong to assume that:
> 

I'm wrong here after all! repoclosure seems to try and resolve the
requirement within the repository the original package was found:

syncekonnector (from updates) for example just requires some kdepim
components, but repoclosure reports broken deps from syncekonnector
because kdepim isn't in updates. It's the same for most other reported
"broken dependencies".

Maybe what repoclosure needs is a mode or option to resolve dependencies
across repositories also?

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Jeroen van Meeuwen
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