How to find package dependencies from the package
Conor McDermottroe
lists at mcdermottroe.com
Thu Sep 15 05:54:26 PDT 2005
On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 20:35 -0500, Eric Schuele wrote:
> Conor McDermottroe wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a terrible feeling that this is a very stupid question, but here
> > goes:
> >
> > How do I programatically find out the list of packages that a given
> > package depends on?
>
> # cd /usr/ports/foo/bar
> # make pretty-print-run-depends-list
> # make pretty-print-build-depends-list
>
> Would that do what you need? Or must you derive this from the *package*?
I'm doing it from the package, as the machine that will have the
packages installed does not have enough space for the ports collection
(it's on CF) and the machine I have with the ports collection on it is a
different architecture (amd64).
Thanks for the suggestion though. :-)
-C
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