[rhn-users] a specific rpm --query mode.

[Christopher L. Barnard]

On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 09:54 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Christopher L. Barnard
> <cbarnard at rush.edu> wrote:
> > I think an RPM is not used, so I want to delete it.  But before I do I
> > want to find out if any other RPMs that are installed rely upon it.  I
> > can use rpm --query --requires RPMNAME to find out what other RPMs must
> > be installed for RPMNAME to work.  But what I am looking for is a way to
> > find out if other RPMs rely on RPMNAME being there.  How would I do
> > this?  I do not see the option in the rpm man page or a google search...
> 
> Well the real ugly way is rpm -e and see what complains :). There is the
> 
> rpm -q --whatrequires <CAPABILITY> which should help
> 
> [smooge at bakeneko Desktop]$ rpm -q --whatrequires passwd
> usermode-1.99-3.x86_64
> [smooge at bakeneko Desktop]$ rpm -q --whatprovides passwd
> passwd-0.76-2.fc11.x86_64
> 
> Hope this helps.
> 
It looks like this does to some extent.  I can write a script that does
a '--whatrequires' for all of the files in the rpm I want to delete.

It appears that 
rpm --query --whatprovides /fully/pathed/file/name and
rpm --query --file /fully/pathed/file/name
do exactly the same thing.  Or am I missing something?

Christopher