determining what ports directly depend on X

[Frank J. Laszlo]

Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> On 1/3/08, Frank J. Laszlo <laszlof at freebsd.org> wrote:
>   
>> Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>>     
>>> On 1/3/08, Frank J. Laszlo <laszlof at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Aryeh Friedman wrote:
>>>>
>>>>         
>>>>> I need to determine which ports depend directly (i.e. they have it
>>>>> listed as a B/RDEPS).   The specfic task I am working on right now
>>>>> (but this will need to be more general later) is attempting to find
>>>>> all the direct childern of libtool15
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>           
>>>> A quick hack would be
>>>>
>>>> grep libtool-1.5 /usr/ports/INDEX-6| awk -F"|" {'print $2'}
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> Doesn't quite work because it appears index is equiv to "make missing"
>>> which includes indirect parents.   For example x11-wm/compwiz does not
>>> reference libool-1.5 except in a USE= line.
>>>
>>>       
>> Most ports should be setup to use "USE_AUTOTOOLS", but obviously there
>> are a few strays.
>>
>> Anything that uses USE_AUTOTOOLS should have LIBTOOL_DEPENDS defined.
>> You could check this. to collect the strays, grepping through for
>> ^.*DEPENDS=.*libtool15" should pick them up.
>>     
>
> Completely useless... it catchs stuff I know for a fact has no direct
> dependancy on libtool15... for example I am the author (but not the
> maintainer but I helped in the port creation) of devel/thistest and
> the *ONLY* direct dependancy it has is java/jdk16 it still lists
> libtool-1.5 as a depend in INDEX-8
>   
Huh? You should be greping the Makefile, not the INDEX. This solution 
will require a bit of scripting to work properly. Any competent 
administrator should be able to develop a script that check for these 2 
things in about 10 minutes.

Regards,
    Frank Laszlo