Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 22:21:58 +0200 From: Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@sigpipe.cz> To: Conor McDermottroe <lists@mcdermottroe.com> Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to find package dependencies from the package Message-ID: <20050914202158.GD19945@isis.sigpipe.cz> In-Reply-To: <1126727985.776.8.camel@platinum.office.edgespace.net> References: <1126727985.776.8.camel@platinum.office.edgespace.net>
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# lists@mcdermottroe.com / 2005-09-14 20:59:45 +0100: > How do I programatically find out the list of packages that a given > package depends on? > > Given packages found at > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-stable/All/ > and > http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-5-packages-latest/All/ > and so on, I have done the following: > > pkg_info -r $package.tbz > > This always claims that the package depends on nothing at all, even when > I'm fairly sure it does. For example for the net/poptop port I get the > following: > > 20:55 root@platinum [~]# fetch > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-stable/All/poptop-1.1.4.b4_3.tbz > poptop-1.1.4.b4_3.tbz 100% of 23 kB 49 kBps > 20:55 root@platinum [~]# pkg_info -r poptop-1.1.4.b4_3.tbz > Information for poptop-1.1.4.b4_3.tbz: > > Depends on: > > 20:56 root@platinum [~]# > > This happens despite the fact that the entry at > http://www.freebsd.org/ports/net.html says: > > poptop-1.1.4.b4_3 > Windows 9x compatible PPTP (VPN) server > Long description | Package | Sources | Main Web Site > Maintained by: ports@FreeBSD.org > Requires: expat-1.95.8_3, gettext-0.14.5, gmake-3.80_2, > libgnugetopt-1.2, libiconv-1.9.2_1 > > This makes no sense to me, but I presume that either something is broken > somewhere or (way more likely) I am broken somewhere. :-) You obviously don't need gmake to install the binary package, and expat, gettext, and libiconv are gmake's dependencies. Why you're not seeing libgnugetopt is a different matter, it's not recorded in the +CONTENTS file; the port has it in RUN_DEPENDS, though. -- How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb? You don't know, man. You don't KNOW. Cause you weren't THERE. http://bash.org/?255991
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