From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 21 18:53:34 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80A6D106566C for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:53:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from smarthost1.sentex.ca (smarthost1-6.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:1::12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 449B08FC16 for ; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:53:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:4:f025:8813:7603:7e4a] (saphire3.sentex.ca [IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:4:f025:8813:7603:7e4a]) by smarthost1.sentex.ca (8.14.5/8.14.4) with ESMTP id pBLIrU8K016413; Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:53:30 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-ID: <4EF22B22.2040709@sentex.net> Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:53:22 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa Organization: Sentex Communications User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101207 Thunderbird/3.1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: 1126 References: In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.71 on IPv6:2607:f3e0:0:1::12 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "required by"? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:53:34 -0000 On 12/21/2011 1:30 PM, 1126 wrote: > Hello guys! > > I got a question concerning dependencies.. Is there a method to check > what depends on a given port? What do I have to do to check what depends > on - say - gconf? I know that there's a way to check what gconf depends > on (via checking freshports.org for example), but what about the other > way around? Try pkg_info -r and -R eg pkg_info -R m4-1.4.16,1 Information for m4-1.4.16,1: Required by: autoconf-2.68 automake-1.11.1 bison-2.4.3,1 # pkg_info -r automake-1.11.1 Information for automake-1.11.1: Depends on: Dependency: perl-threaded-5.14.1_3 Dependency: m4-1.4.16,1 Dependency: automake-wrapper-20101119 Dependency: autoconf-wrapper-20101119 Dependency: autoconf-2.68 Another way is described at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-finding-applications.html ---Mike -- ------------------- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, mike@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994 www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada http://www.tancsa.com/