[Mageia-dev] Problem with rpm -q --whatrequires

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and David W. Hodgins at 22/02/12 04:36 did gyre and gimble:
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2012 04:27:17 -0500, Colin Guthrie
> <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 
>> Is this because the kernel requires it as Requires(pre) and thus it
>> doesn't show up? Should it show up?
> 
> I don't know if it should show up for rpm or not, but it works
> with urpmq ...
> [root at hodgins /]# rpm -q --whatrequires dracut
> no package requires dracut
> [root at hodgins /]# urpmq --whatrequires dracut
> dracut
> kernel-desktop-3.2.6-3.mga2
> kernel-desktop586-3.2.6-3.mga2
> kernel-linus-3.2.6-1.mga2
> kernel-linus-3.2.7-1.mga2
> kernel-netbook-3.2.6-3.mga2
> kernel-rt-3.2.6-0.rt13.1.mga2
> kernel-server-3.2.6-3.mga2
> kernel-tmb-desktop-3.2.6-1.mga2
> kernel-tmb-desktop586-3.2.6-1.mga2
> kernel-tmb-laptop-3.2.6-1.mga2
> kernel-tmb-server-3.2.6-1.mga2
> kernel-vserver-3.2.6-1.mga2
> kernel-vserver-3.2.7-1.mga2

Yeah this is what Dexter said too, but it's really quite bad that the
two tools offer the same argument, but they actually work differently.
See my earlier reply about this tho'.

Col


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