Bug 7103 - topological sort for queries
Summary: topological sort for queries
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: rpm
Version: 8.0
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jeff Johnson
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 1999-11-18 16:57 UTC by kestes
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:24 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-10-28 19:46:21 UTC
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Description kestes 1999-11-18 16:57:10 UTC 
It would be very helpful if 'rpm -qa' (and all queries)
would return the packages in a topological order.
That is the list  of package would come back
in an order which is valid for installing.
The order would respect the dependencies implicit
in the packages.
Comment 1 Stephen John Smoogen 2003-01-23 23:16:59 UTC 
Is this practical to do inside of RPM or creating a helper program that uses
rpmlib or similar tools?
Comment 2 Jeff Johnson 2003-01-24 13:46:04 UTC 
This is doable ina any number of ways, but, since
it's a FAQ, needs to be done on the CLI too.
Comment 3 Jeff Johnson 2004-10-28 19:46:21 UTC 
Implemented in rpm-4.4, packages available at
    ftp://ftp.jbj.org/pub/rpm-4.4
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