Package categorization and distribution construction

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:48:38AM -0500, Przemek Klosowski wrote:
> On 01/19/2012 10:43 AM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 
> >I wrote a little graphical tool called rpmdepsize (it's in Fedora)
> >which may be useful.  Unfortunately it only works with a single
> >package, eg:
> >
> >   rpmdepsize kernel
> 
> Interesting--but I tried it on my F15 box and it froze. I tried
> 'rpdepsize kernel' and on a very simple (no deps) package 'setup':
> it prints an error:
> 
> (rpmdepsize:18625): LablGTK-CRITICAL **: GSourceFunc: callback
> raised an exception
> 
> and just sits there with gray screen and message 'Loading kernel ...'

It runs 'yum' at this point, so it's likely that yum is
just being slow.

Rich.

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