Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 20:59:45 +0100 From: Conor McDermottroe <lists@mcdermottroe.com> To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: How to find package dependencies from the package Message-ID: <1126727985.776.8.camel@platinum.office.edgespace.net>
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Hi, I have a terrible feeling that this is a very stupid question, but here goes: How do I programatically find out the list of packages that a given package depends on? Given packages found at ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-stable/All/ and http://pointyhat.freebsd.org/errorlogs/i386-5-packages-latest/All/ and so on, I have done the following: pkg_info -r $package.tbz This always claims that the package depends on nothing at all, even when I'm fairly sure it does. For example for the net/poptop port I get the following: 20:55 root@platinum [~]# fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-stable/All/poptop-1.1.4.b4_3.tbz poptop-1.1.4.b4_3.tbz 100% of 23 kB 49 kBps 20:55 root@platinum [~]# pkg_info -r poptop-1.1.4.b4_3.tbz Information for poptop-1.1.4.b4_3.tbz: Depends on: 20:56 root@platinum [~]# This happens despite the fact that the entry at http://www.freebsd.org/ports/net.html says: poptop-1.1.4.b4_3 Windows 9x compatible PPTP (VPN) server Long description | Package | Sources | Main Web Site Maintained by: ports@FreeBSD.org Requires: expat-1.95.8_3, gettext-0.14.5, gmake-3.80_2, libgnugetopt-1.2, libiconv-1.9.2_1 This makes no sense to me, but I presume that either something is broken somewhere or (way more likely) I am broken somewhere. :-) I would be very grateful if anyone could enlighten me. -C
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