A "whatuses" command for yum?

Jon Ciesla limb at jcomserv.net
Mon Apr 11 18:59:11 UTC 2011


Jeff Garzik wrote:
> A humble, basic question for you experts...
>
> Given a library, such as jansson (C JSON lib), how does one 
> automatically list all packages in the F14 repo which require jansson?
>
> Must be able to find packages which are not installed on the current system.
>
> Thanks,
>
> 	Jeff
>
>
>
>   
repoquery --whatrequires <foo>, which could be a name of an RPM, or a 
solib name, like libfoo.so.0.

repoquery is in yum-utils.

-J

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