[Spacewalk-list] "repoquery -q --whatrequires" not working on my spacewalk enabled machines

[Michael Mraka]

Jens Neu wrote:
% Dear all,
% 
% I have numerous Centos 6 machines running against Spacewalk 1.7. I'm just 
% wondering why e.g. a "repoquery -q --whatrequires --alldeps glibc" which 
% should give a lot of output is not working here. Is there a technical 
% limitation why this is not working (like yum groupinstall) while running 
% against Spacewalk?

Hi Jens,

there's no limitation and repoquery should (and I believe it does) work
with spacewalk repos exactly same way as with other yum repos.

Just be aware that 'repoquery -q --whatrequires' is not 'rpm -q --whatrequires'
equivalent for packages from repo.

# repoquery -h
  ...
  --whatrequires        query what package(s) require a capability

but the capability packages typicaly require is not 'glibc' but something
like 'libc.so.6()(64bit)' (dependency automaticaly generated by rpm).
So you most likely want:

# repoquery -q --whatrequires  --alldeps 'libc.so.6()(64bit)'

% regards Jens
% Jens Neu

Regards,

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Michael Mráka
Satellite Engineering, Red Hat