showing dependency trees

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> Debayan Banerjee wrote:
>> Well, I develop a debian distribution for my organisation and I often need
>> to confirm whether the packages in the repository are installable or not.
>> I use edos-debcheck. Here is a sample invocation.
>
> How we do this in Fedora is that we just run "yum install pkgname" and then
> say "no" when asked whether to confirm the installation.

well - no - that only works if you do it to an empty chroot.

doing it locally only verifies that you have the bits on your local 
system.

-sv