Feature request...

[Matthew Seaman]

On 31/10/2013 18:45, Jeffrey Bouquet wrote:
> Suppose pkg when installing libxul from a package (for example), put
> the following in /usr/ports/multimedia/gxine (for example)
> "/usr/ports/multimedia/gxine/pkg_rdep_libxul.(MM-YY or Version
> or...)" making one .bak copy if it exists.  Then one may know more
> readily, when it is time to update gxine, if the libxul package may
> be available.

Information about reverse dependencies is already tracked in
local.sqlite, as is information about which shlibs packages either
provide or require.  It's much more efficient to use a RDBMS and keep
all that information in one place than scattering it all over the
filesystem.

Look at pkg-query(8) for how to extract that data from local.sqlite --
or it's close cousin pkg-rquery(8) which does the equivalent for
repository catalogues.

If I understand correctly the situation you're trying to describe, then
I think pkg(8) already does what you want.

	Cheers,

	Matthew

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Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.
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