RPM Help Needed

[Gyepi SAM]

On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:35:03PM -0500, David Relson wrote:
>    %define _requires_exceptions "perl(MIME::Parser) perl(POSIX)
> perl(strict)"
> 
> This could get interesting!

Yes, it could. Good work David! My rpm-4.0.2 on RH 7.1 does not even have the exception
stuff you're referring to. Fortunatately, rpm knows to ignore unrecognized
constructs so it should be OK.

> By the way, given a binary rpm how can I display its dependencies
> without having to install it?

use the -p option.

  rpm -qp --provides /path/to/file.rpm

will list the capabilities of the package. Replace provides with requires as
necessary.

-Gyepi