upgrade port, a couple of questions

Chris Whitehouse chris at childeric.freeserve.co.uk
Wed Aug 2 22:34:06 UTC 2006


Scott Oertel wrote:
> Nicolas Blais wrote:
>> On Wednesday 02 August 2006 17:27, Efren Bravo wrote:
>>  
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> How can I see which ports depend on
>>> libgmp-4.1.4_1?
>>>
>>> If I upgrade it, the applications that are using
>>> the old libgmp would be affected?
>>>
>>> Thanks...
>>>
>>> Efren Bravo.
>>>     
>>
>> If you go into /var/db/pkg/libgmp-4.1.4_1 you'll see a file called 
>> +REQUIRED_BY. Read it (cat "+REQUIRED_BY") to see which ports require 
>> libgmp.
>>
>> You usually do not have to rebuild those ports unless there was a 
>> major change in the library. It's up to you to know if you need to 
>> rebuild them or not.
>>
>> Nicolas.
>>
>>   
> This is a question i've had for a while, so this ("+REQUIRED_BY") checks 
> what depends on libgmp, how do you check what libgmp depends on?


pkg_info?

      -r      Show the list of packages on which each package depends.

      -R      Show the list of installed packages which require each 
package.

Also I've found portmanager copes pretty well with most dependencies.

Chris



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