find-packages-using-libs: request for feedback

[Eitan Adler]

This looks useful - any chance you could make a port out of this?


On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 6:56 PM, Anton Berezin <tobez at tobez.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After the recent icu and libgcrypt updates I decided to try and find a
> way to avoid rebuilding everything which depends on a particular
> port when its shared library version is bumped.
>
> Previously I was profitably using sysutils/libchk, producing in the end
> the list of packages which *have* to be rebuilt.  Its use, however,
> requires some substantial massaging of the output it produces.
>
> So I wrote a little tool which automates such tasks.  As a side effect,
> it can also be used to simply list all packages using a shared library
> (or libraries).
>
> Fetch it at https://github.com/tobez/find-packages-using-libs .
>
> Usage examples:
>
> Finding every installed package using libgcrypt:
>
>    ./find-packages-using-libs libgcrypt.so\*
>
> Finding every installed package using libgcrypt OR libicu*:
>
>    ./find-packages-using-libs libgcrypt.so\* libicu*
>
> Finding every installed package which uses libraries that do
> not exist (or exist in non-standard paths without any RPATH):
>
>    ./find-packages-using-libs -b
>
> Finding every installed package which uses a non-existing libgcrypt:
>
>    ./find-packages-using-libs -b libgcrypt.so\*
>
> There are a couple of minor options as well,
> but for now, this about covers it.
>
> I am interested in you feedback:
>
> - would you use it?  does it solve a problem for you, or do you foresee
>  it will solve a problem for you in the future?
> - does it work for you?  any bugs?
> - any wishes with regard to missing features?
>
> Most of the package-walking code shamelessly (for a good reason) stolen
> from the perl-after-upgrade script.
>
> The code is in public domain.
>
> Cheers,
> \Anton.
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Eitan Adler