Bug 122179

Summary:	rpm -q --whatrequires doesn't return "package not installed" when package is missing.
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal <sindrepb>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Jeff Johnson <jbj>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Mike McLean <mikem>
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Description Sindre Pedersen Bjørdal 2004-05-01 15:39:40 UTC

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Description of problem:
If one tries to do rpm -q --whatrequires to a package that isn't
installed, or if you have a typo or a bogus package name, it will
return  "no package requires <packagename>".

For example if I want to check what packages require compat-slang, but
I don't have it installed I do:
rpm -q --whatrequires compat-slang

rpm will return: 
no package requires compat-slang 

This gives me the impression that I have the package installed, but no
package needs it, which again seems all wrong. It should return
"package compat-slang is not installed" instead or in addition to the
current output. 


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How reproducible:
Always


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Comment 1 Alan Cox 2004-05-02 21:54:00 UTC

I'm not sure this is really a bug. If you have unresolved dependancies
you can legitimately have requirements for packages that are not
installed. You can also have requirements for file paths, libraries etc