Determining what a port will install... (more than pretty-print-*)

Garance A Drosihn drosih at rpi.edu
Mon May 2 08:13:36 PDT 2005


At 9:42 AM -0500 5/2/05, Eric Schuele wrote:
>Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>>
>>I believe that 'portupgrade -n' only works right for ports which
>>you have already installed.
>
>Yes... That is the conclusion I have come to.
>
>I'm sure what I am trying to accomplish is just one savvy shell
>script away.... I'm just not that savvy though.  If I can't find
>something which already does what I'm looking for.... I'll muddle
>through writing a script to do it.

If there isn't anything which already exists, then I'd try something
along the lines of 'cd'-ing into the directory of the port you want
to install, and getting the output of:

make -V RUN_DEPENDS -V BUILD_DEPENDS -V LIB_DEPENDS

(that should give you three lines, some or all of which might be
blank lines).  Each non-blank line will be of the form "a1:b1 a2:b2 ...",
where each "a" is a pathname, and each "b" is a portname.

I'll leave it to you to decide where you go from there...

You might want to check through: cd /usr/ports/sysutils/port*
and see if any of those already do what you want to see done.

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu


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