From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 15 01:35:18 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: ports@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B49116A41F for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 01:35:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from sccrmhc14.comcast.net (sccrmhc14.comcast.net [63.240.76.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A6DD43D4C for ; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 01:35:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from e.schuele@computer.org) Received: from [192.168.214.218] (c-24-1-232-64.hsd1.tx.comcast.net[24.1.232.64]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc14) with ESMTP id <200509150135160140023choe>; Thu, 15 Sep 2005 01:35:16 +0000 Message-ID: <4328CFD3.3000104@computer.org> Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:35:15 -0500 From: Eric Schuele User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050908) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Conor McDermottroe References: <1126727985.776.8.camel@platinum.office.edgespace.net> In-Reply-To: <1126727985.776.8.camel@platinum.office.edgespace.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to find package dependencies from the package X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 01:35:18 -0000 Conor McDermottroe wrote: > Hi, > > I have a terrible feeling that this is a very stupid question, but here > goes: > > How do I programatically find out the list of packages that a given > package depends on? # cd /usr/ports/foo/bar # make pretty-print-run-depends-list # make pretty-print-build-depends-list Would that do what you need? Or must you derive this from the *package*? > > 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. :-) > > I would be very grateful if anyone could enlighten me. > > -C > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > -- Regards, Eric