Have you ever wondered if your RPM dependency tree had any holes? It shouldn't have any holes if you have never used --nodeps.
On a FC3 box that I was building and installing rawhide packages for GNOME v2.10 I was forced to use --nodeps to get packages installed. Later dependencies were satisfied. I wanted to see if I had any holes left.
Here how I did it:
# rpm -Va 2>&1 | grep "Unsatisfied dependencies"
Unsatisfied dependencies for rhn-applet-2.1.16-1.i386: gnome-python2-gtkhtml2
Unsatisfied dependencies for system-config-printer-gui-0.6.116.1.1-1.i386: gnome-python2-gtkhtml2
Unsatisfied dependencies for openoffice.org-1.1.3-9.5.0.fc3.i386: libebook.so.8, libedataserver.so.3
Unsatisfied dependencies for bluez-pin-0.24-1.i386: libdbus-1.so.0, libdbus-glib-1.so.0
The -V option really needs a --just-check-deps or something as this takes a LONG time to run with all the md5 and file validation.
Hey Dax!
I was searching for the Guru RPM guide, and hit this instead.... Fun to see the pics of Bryan with headphones on like usual :-)
What you want is something like
[root@mingus ~]# rpm -Va --nofiles --noscripts --nodigest --nosignature --nolinkto --nomd5 --nosize --nouser --nogroup --nomtime --nomode --nordev
[root@mingus ~]#
I highly recommend defining that as an alias for the sake of your fingers and sanity....