Listing installed ports without any ports dependent on it
Joe Marcus Clarke
marcus at marcuscom.com
Mon Jun 2 20:53:12 PDT 2003
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 23:29, Adam wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 20:16, parv wrote:
> > What you need is to check if '+REQUIRED_BY' file exists. (For finer
> > control, also check if it is empty or not.) If file does not exist
> > (or is empty), then there is no registered dependency.
> >
> > #!/bin/sh
> > pkgdb=/var/db/pkg
> >
> > for p in $pkgdb/*
> > do
> > [ -f "$p/+REQUIRED_BY" ] || { echo "$p" | sed -e "s!^$pkgdb/!!" ; }
> > done
>
> This almost works, but not quite as elegant as the method I used before.
> I wish like hell I still had a copy of that python script someone on
> this list gave me. That script should be installed as part of the
> portupgrade suite, imo.
It's not Python, but this script should work.
Joe
>
> Thanks,
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