Date: 02 Jun 2003 23:29:18 -0400 From: Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net> To: parv <parv_fm@emailgroups.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Listing installed ports without any ports dependent on it Message-ID: <1054610958.16970.79.camel@jake> In-Reply-To: <20030603001607.GA3613@moo.holy.cow> References: <1054590763.16970.5.camel@jake> <20030603001607.GA3613@moo.holy.cow>
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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.
Thanks,
--
Adam <blueeskimo@gmx.net>
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