Re: List all packages which have a build requirement on package foo

[Todd Zullinger]

Hi,

Stefan Schulze Frielinghaus wrote:
> How can I list all packages which have a *build* requirement on package
> foo? AFAIK build requirements are not stored as meta data in RPM files.
> Thus, repoquery won't help. The only option I am aware of would be to
> download all SPEC files and search for build requirements manually. Any
> other ideas? If not, is there a central repository of all SPEC files?
>
> The use case is that I would like to find out which package depends on
> package foo. The "normal" / runtime dependencies, i.e.,
>
> Requires: foo
>
> can be queried via repoquery. However, it is unclear to me how to list
> packages which have a build requirement, i.e.,
>
> BuildRequires: foo
>
> on package foo.

If you enable the '-source' repositories, you'll be able to
do this with `dnf repoquery`.  Something like this, I
believe:

dnf repoquery --disablerepo '*' --enablerepo '*-source' --alldeps --whatrequires foo

(You may want to be more selective in which source repos you
enable, of course.)