Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:56:15 +0200 From: Anton Berezin <tobez@tobez.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: find-packages-using-libs: request for feedback Message-ID: <20110712225615.GA91283@heechee.tobez.org>
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Hi, After the recent icu and libgcrypt updates I decided to try and find a way to avoid rebuilding everything which depends on a particular port when its shared library version is bumped. Previously I was profitably using sysutils/libchk, producing in the end the list of packages which *have* to be rebuilt. Its use, however, requires some substantial massaging of the output it produces. So I wrote a little tool which automates such tasks. As a side effect, it can also be used to simply list all packages using a shared library (or libraries). Fetch it at https://github.com/tobez/find-packages-using-libs . Usage examples: Finding every installed package using libgcrypt: ./find-packages-using-libs libgcrypt.so\* Finding every installed package using libgcrypt OR libicu*: ./find-packages-using-libs libgcrypt.so\* libicu* Finding every installed package which uses libraries that do not exist (or exist in non-standard paths without any RPATH): ./find-packages-using-libs -b Finding every installed package which uses a non-existing libgcrypt: ./find-packages-using-libs -b libgcrypt.so\* There are a couple of minor options as well, but for now, this about covers it. I am interested in you feedback: - would you use it? does it solve a problem for you, or do you foresee it will solve a problem for you in the future? - does it work for you? any bugs? - any wishes with regard to missing features? Most of the package-walking code shamelessly (for a good reason) stolen from the perl-after-upgrade script. The code is in public domain. Cheers, \Anton. -- Our society can survive even a large amount of irrational regulation. -- John McCarthy
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