Documenting a ports depedency tree?

RW fbsd06 at mlists.homeunix.com
Tue Jan 16 14:15:15 UTC 2007


On Mon, 15 Jan 2007 20:32:13 -0800
Jay Chandler <chandler at chapman.edu> wrote:

> stan wrote:
> > Is there a way to document the entire depedency tree for a given
> > port?
> >
> > EG, if a dpends on b which depends on d & e, which in turn depend
> > on z, I'd like to print out this dependency list.
> >
> >   
> A good question, which I've taken the liberty of researching.
> 
> montreal# cd /usr/ports/mail/p5-FuzzyOcr
> montreal# make pretty-print-run-depends-list
>...
> Kinda crappy looking.  You can also 'make readmes" to generate HTML 
> readme files, but I don't believe it recurses.
> 

It shows the recursive dependencies, but doesn't display any
hierarchical information. sysutils/pkg_tree may be of some use for
installed packages.




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