Don't remember the options off the top of my head, but you might want to look at
Maximum RPM (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0672311054/).  It goes into
more depth about RPM and its capabilities than the man and info pages seem to. 
Definitely a handy book to have around if you deal with RPM based distros (RH,
Mandrake, Suse, etc...).

"der.hans" wrote:
> 
> Am 06. Mar, 2002 schwätzte Lynn David Newton so:
> 
> > I don't see an option in rpm itself that extracts the
> > information "if you want to upgrade x, then, you'll
> > also have to upgrade w, y, and z."
> 
> * Pay for their upgrade service.
> * Mirror the dist and write your own dependency checker.
> * Write something that automagically, recursively grabs dependencies.
> * Port rpm-get to RH and get mirror sites to support it.
> * Move to a dist such as debian, SuSE or Mandrake that has dependency
> checking upgrade tools.
> 
> Choose a card, any card... :)
> 
> ciao,
> 
> der.hans
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