search for BuildRequires using repoquery

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Dan Horák wrote:

> Seth Vidal píše v Čt 18. 12. 2008 v 09:06 -0500:
>>
>> On Thu, 18 Dec 2008, Dan Horák wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> the manpage for repoquery says that is is possible to search for
>>> BuildRequires using this command:
>>>
>>> repoquery --archlist=src --whatrequires gail-devel
>>>
>>> But it gives me a traceback. Is it still supposed to work? There was
>>> also a thread on yum-devel about searching BuildRequires -
>>> http://lists.baseurl.org/pipermail/yum-devel/2006-May/002187.html
>>>
>>>
>>
>> What traceback does it give you?
>
> yum-utils-1.1.18-2.fc10.noarch
>
> [dan at eagle ~]$ repoquery --archlist=src --whatrequires wxGTK2-devel
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>  File "/usr/bin/repoquery", line 853, in <module>
>    main(sys.argv)
>  File "/usr/bin/repoquery", line 849, in main
>    repoq.runQuery(regexs)
>  File "/usr/bin/repoquery", line 503, in runQuery
>    for p in self.doQuery(oper, prco): print p
>  File "/usr/bin/repoquery", line 508, in doQuery
>    return getattr(self, "fmt_%s" % method)(*args, **kw)
>  File "/usr/bin/repoquery", line 545, in fmt_whatrequires
>    require_recursive(name)
>  File "/usr/bin/repoquery", line 540, in require_recursive
>    for pkg in self.pkgSack.searchRequires(prov.split()[0]):
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 592, in
> <lambda>
>    pkgSack = property(fget=lambda self: self._getSacks(),
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/__init__.py", line 417, in
> _getSacks
>    if self._pkgSack and thisrepo is None:
>  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/yum/packageSack.py", line 263,
> in __len__
>    ret += len(sack)
> ValueError: __len__() should return >= 0
>
>
> Do you want a bug?
>

sure, but before you do, try yum-utils 1.1.19 which just hit 
updates-testing.

-sv