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RPM Dependency Graph

Posted by michael on from the graphical-user-interface dept.

Lomby writes "Following the spirit of the kernel schematics poster, I wrote a script that generates a diagram that depicts the rpm packages installed in your system, along with their dependencies. You can find more details and a download link at freshmeat."

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  1. Recursive loops by flonker · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ah, but does it handle recursive loops? ie. Package A v1.2 requires Package B, but package B requires Package A v0.9?

    I've encountered that kind of thing way too frequently building stuff on Cygwin. Admittedly, RPMs are not the same as building from source.

  2. Modified to support .debs? by Other · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wonder how hard this would be to modify to use debian packages and dpkg instead of rpm. Anyone taken a look at the source?