[Yum] Question about listinf package dependencies.
Panu Matilainen
pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Wed Apr 5 20:33:10 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 16:13 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 16:09 -0400, Gaurav Poothia wrote:
> > well I'm actually working on a new security infrastructure as part of my
> > research where if the integrity of one "trusted" package is compromised I
> > trace the other parts
> > of the system that are potentially compromised.
> >
> > any ideas on how i can find the dependencies?
>
> writing a yum util to recursively resolve out dependencies for any given
> package is pretty simple.
>
> just use the routines to resolve the deps and then keep a list of things
> you've not yet resolved.
repo-graph from yum-utils *might* be a useful starting point .. or then
not :)
- Panu -
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