[Yum] yum check

[Ian Burrell]

One of the features listed in the TODO list is "yum check".  I think the 
important operation is to check for broken dependencies of installed 
packages.  I was thinking this concept could be extended to checking for 
broken dependencies when installing packages from repositories.

"yum check" is the same as "yum check installed" and would check the 
installed packages.

"yum check updates" would check the updates for dependencies.

"yum check <package>" would check the dependencies for the given package.

"yum check available" would check the dependencies for installing all 
the available packages.

This would be very useful for finding compatibility problems between 
repositories.  If yum had the concept of the list of packages for an 
individual repository, it would useful to do "yum check [freshrpms]" and 
check installing all the freshrpm packages.

  - Ian

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