smart query --requires= versus apt-cache rdepends
Pascal Rosin
pascal at rock-n-rosin.de
Fri May 16 04:46:45 PDT 2008
Hi there,
while trying out the smart package manager, i noticed that the result of the
following commands differs on my Ubuntu 8.04 system ("Benötigt" is german for
requires):
$ smart query --requires=smartpm-core
=>
kpackage-kde4_4:4.0.3-0ubuntu2
Benötigt
smartpm-core
kpackage-kde4_4:4.0.4-0ubuntu1~hardy1
Benötigt
smartpm-core
$ apt-cache rdepends smartpm-core
=>
smartpm-core
Reverse Depends:
kpackage-kde4
smartpm
kpackage-kde4
Why isn't the reverse dependency to smartpm shown by smart, since smart says
the following?:
$ smart query --show-requires smartpm
=>
smartpm_0.52-2
Benötigt
python
python-central >= 0.5.8
python-gtk2
smartpm-core = 0.52-2
By the way, it is a little bit confusing, that "--requires=DEP" means the
opposite of "--show-requires DEP", or am I missing something?
Greetings Pascal
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