determining pkg dependencies

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Sat May 1 20:20:23 PDT 2004


In the last episode (May 01), Vulpes Velox said:
> Well hope I have the right list...
> 
> Any one know of a good info on determining pkg/port dependencies
> and how to go about determining what order they need to be install in?
> 
> I've been kicking around putting together something a little like
> portupgrade, using c++, but don't know ruby, which makes it hard to
> figure out how portupgrade does that. :/

Portupgrade just uses the @pkgdep lines in /var/db/pkg/*/+CONTENTS, I
believe.

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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