From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Thu Dec 14 20:54:06 2006
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
X-Original-To: questions@FreeBSD.org
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDFAB16A75C
	for <questions@FreeBSD.org>; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:54:05 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk)
Received: from smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk
	[195.188.213.8])
	by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D496F43E7C
	for <questions@FreeBSD.org>; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:46:50 +0000 (GMT)
	(envelope-from chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk)
Received: from [172.23.170.145] (helo=anti-virus03-08)
	by smtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52)
	id 1GuxUs-0003j9-9V; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:48:06 +0000
Received: from [82.35.115.93] (helo=[192.168.10.60])
	by asmtp-out5.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim 4.52)
	id 1GuxUr-0007uH-9A; Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:48:05 +0000
Message-ID: <4581B883.4050703@childeric.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:48:03 +0000
From: Chris Whitehouse <chris@childeric.freeserve.co.uk>
User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (X11/20060417)
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: Frank Staals <frankstaals@gmx.net>
References: <45819393.20700@gmx.net>
In-Reply-To: <45819393.20700@gmx.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: Getting a list of dependencies which have to be installed ?
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2006 20:54:06 -0000

Frank Staals wrote:
> Hey...,
> 
> Is there a utility to display the dependencies of a port which have yet 
> to be installed ? I know you can get a complete dependency list on 
> freebsd.org/ports , pkg_info -r or just looking in the files in the 
> ports dir. But is there a command to display only the dependencies which 
> haven't been installed on your system yet ? I also looked at pkg_add -n 
> but it immediately starts fetching the packages needed. I don't want to 
> start downloading the complete package just because I want a list of 
> ports I haven't installed yet.

Hi Frank,

It's not exactly what you want but at least it contains what you want: 
portmanager -s displays the status of each port including missing 
dependencies.

Chris