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Need better docs
by Crippler - Dec 9th 2003 05:08:21
I was reading the man page for rpmgraph and I didn't see anything
explicitly stating that it would try to install RPM packages on a system.
I ran rpmgraph as a non-root user, gave it *.rpm as the filespec, and it
spit out a bunch of errors about not being able to install the packages via
STDERR. STDOUT gave me nothing back. :-/
So I tried to click on the link above to see if the author's web site had
any examples of its usage (note well that working examples should always be
included in man pages) but the hostname of the author's web site does not
resolve.
If anyone has gotten this to spit out useful DOT output I'd love to hear
how you got it working. On paper this sounds like a really valuable tool
for distro maintainers.
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Re: Need better docs
by Toby Haynes - Aug 6th 2004 08:37:02
> If anyone has gotten this to spit out
> useful DOT output I'd love to hear how
> you got it working. On paper this
> sounds like a really valuable tool for
> distro maintainers.
The output I've coaxed out of this tool involves the following:
$ cd directory/containing/lotsofrpms
$ rpmgraph *.rpm > rpmgraph.dot
$ dot -Tps rpmgraph.dot -o rpmgraph.ps
I ran this as a normal user and it created a graph of the packages
supplied on the command line.
It would maybe be more useful to have a tool that walked the currently
installed set of RPMs and generated a graph from that set of dependencies.
Sounds like a job for a perl script to me
--
These are my own opinions and not necessarily the
opinions of IBM Canada.
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