Getting a list of dependencies which have to be installed ?

Frank Staals frankstaals at gmx.net
Thu Dec 14 11:13:00 PST 2006


Chad Gross wrote:
>
>
> On 12/14/06, *Frank Staals* <frankstaals at gmx.net 
> <mailto:frankstaals at gmx.net>> wrote:
>
>     Hey...,
>
>     Is there a utility to display the dependencies of a port which
>     have yet
>

>     utility which can display this information which I'm not aware of ?
>
>     Thanks in advance,
>
>     --
>     -Frank Staals
>
>
>     _______________________________________________
>
>
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> Yes, read man ports before asking : 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ports&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.1-RELEASE&format=html 
> <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ports&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+6.1-RELEASE&format=html>
>
> cd to the dir of the port you wish to know the dependencies of and 
> issue one or both of these commands:
>
> *pretty-print-run-depends-list*, *pretty-print-build-depends-list*
> 		      Print a list of all the compile and run dependencies,
> 		      and dependencies of those dependencies.
>
> Chad
>
By running those commands you just get the complete dependency list of 
the port, that was not what I was asking for: I only wanted it to 
display the dependencies I don't have yet ......

-- 
-Frank Staals




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