From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mon Oct 24 01:32:07 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB8C4C1F664 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 01:32:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dnewman@networktest.com) Received: from mail8.networktest.com (mail8.networktest.com [IPv6:2607:f740:c::a13]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 974C02D5 for ; Mon, 24 Oct 2016 01:32:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dnewman@networktest.com) Received: from mail8.networktest.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail8.networktest.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C495821BB for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2016 18:32:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mail8.networktest.com Received: from mail8.networktest.com ([127.0.0.1]) by mail8.networktest.com (mail8.networktest.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10026) with ESMTP id rHh0RmAGeGRT for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2016 18:32:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tejay.local (unknown [IPv6:2605:e000:141f:145:115f:c4a0:83fb:efcf]) by mail8.networktest.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 8DBFB82004 for ; Sun, 23 Oct 2016 18:32:00 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: pkg and reverse dependencies To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <3109508c-88e5-5d9c-0f7c-f3279e66eb3b@networktest.com> From: David Newman Organization: Network Test Inc. Message-ID: Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 18:31:59 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 01:32:07 -0000 On 10/23/16 6:17 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > -r, My understanding is that -r returns dependencies of an installed package -- i.e., which packages are required for that package to work. I am asking about the opposite: Which other packages depend on this package. This info was available from the old 'pkg_info -R' command. > man pkg-info No manual entry for pkg-info And new systems no longer include the old pkg_info command. Did you mean something else? Thanks! dn > > On Sun, Oct 23, 2016 at 7:57 PM, David Newman > wrote: > >> With pkg, how to see reverse dependencies of an installed package? >> >> The old pkg_info command had an -R switch for this, but 'pkg info -R >> ' does not do that (it does return lots of other useful info). >> >> Asking specifically about php56-recode, which causes apache24 to dump >> core every time it's upgraded. I don't think I need php56-recode, but >> would like to check what's using it before uninstalling. This is on an >> 11.0-RELEASE amd64 system. >> >> Thanks! >> >> dn >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- >> unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > >