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Date:      Fri, 12 Apr 2002 18:03:35 +0300
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@ringlet.net>
To:        Mark Hannon <markhannon@optushome.com.au>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: emerge --pretend equivalent
Message-ID:  <20020412180335.F365@straylight.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <3CB6C93B.6693E953@optushome.com.au>; from markhannon@optushome.com.au on Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 09:47:07PM %2B1000
References:  <3CB6C93B.6693E953@optushome.com.au>

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On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 09:47:07PM +1000, Mark Hannon wrote:
> Hi,
>=20
> I have had a little play with the Gentoo linux distribution.  One thing
> that I liked was the emerge --pretend xyz which prints out a list of
> things
> the system would do in order to build/install a particular package,
> including
> a list of what dependencies it will build.  Do we have anything
> equivalent?

For dependencies, 'make all-depends-list' would, well, list all
the dependencies of a port :)  For actions to be taken, usually
a 'make -n configure' or 'make -n all' would display *something*,
but because of the complicated design of the Ports Collection
make(1) infrastructure, what is displayed is not always exactly
human-reader-friendly.  If you are interested in specific actions
that the port maintainer has deemed appropriate to execute at
install/deinstall time, usually there are the pkg-install and
pkg-deinstall files, which are simple shell scripts.

If you are looking at an already-built package instead of a port,
then you could use the pkg_info(1) utility to gain all the information
you might be interested in; specifically, look at its -D, -f, -i, -k,
-r, -R, -m, -L and -s options.

Hope that helps!

G'luck,
Peter

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