A tool to list package deps sorted by buildtime?

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jan 26 13:36:00 UTC 2011


On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 12:52 +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Scenario:
> 
> Assume I have package "foo". It's installed already, and the local RPM
> database covers it and all its dependencies.
> 
> App "foo" used to run fine a month ago, but a rebuild no longer does.
> Dependencies have been updated. Too many for "rpm -qa --last|less" or
> yum's log to be helpful.
> 
> I'd like to run an RPM query on "foo" that displays the %{buildtime}
> for all of foo's Requires, sorted by buildtime.
> 
> Does anyone know of an existing tool that can do exactly this already?
> Or a script that achieves the same on top of an ordinary rpm --qf ... query?


I just want to make sure I have this:

1. rpm -qR foo

2. take each of those resolve it out to what provides them
3. return the buildtime + pkg name of each of those, sorted by buildtime

correct?

-sv




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