RPMGRAPH(8)

💖 RPMGRAPH(8) — the rpmgraph era 💖

okay bestie, welcome to rpmgraph, section 8 of the manual, and yes this one is a whole vibe. it draws the dependency graph of your RPM packages. it's giving ✨topological✨ and we're obsessed. 🦋

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✨ NAME ✨

rpmgraph — Display RPM Package Dependency Graph 🌈

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

rpmgraph PACKAGE_FILE ...

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💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

so here's the tea, bestie: rpmgraph uses those PACKAGE_FILE arguments to generate a package dependency graph. no cap. 🌸

each PACKAGE_FILE argument gets read and added to an rpm(8) transaction set. then the elements of that transaction set get partially ordered using a topological sort. and then — plot twist — those partially ordered elements get printed to standard output. slay. 💖

the nodes in the dependency graph are package names, and the edges in the directed graph point to the parent of each node. now, what's a parent, you ask? 🫶 the parent node is defined as the last predecessor of a package when it's partially ordered using the package dependencies as a relation. which literally means: the parent of a given package is the package's last prerequisite. periodt. 💀✨

the output is in dot(1) directed graph format, so you can display or print it using the dotty graph editor from the graphviz package. iconic. 👑

🫶 heads up bestie: there are no rpmgraph specific options, only common rpm options. go check the rpmgraph usage message for what's currently implemented, iykyk. 💅

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• dot(1)
• dotty(1)
• http://www.graphviz.org/ <URL:http://www.graphviz.org/>

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💜 AUTHORS 💜

Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com> — the main character who wrote this fr fr 🎀

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌸 this gorgeous little manual page is from 30 June 2002 and it lives under RPMGRAPH(8). go forth and graph those dependencies, you absolute legend 🦋💖✨