A tool to list package deps sorted by buildtime?

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 08:36 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> 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?

If this is what you want then try:

http://skvidal.fedorapeople.org/misc/sort-req-by-buildtime.py

it'll be pretty simple to modify.

-sv