From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 17 19:08:45 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEEC010656E0 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:08:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.9]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE0988FC08 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:08:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 5098 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2009 19:08:45 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 17 Mar 2009 19:08:45 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id DA6255084B; Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:08:43 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20090317150356.6f6cc9aa@scorpio> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:08:43 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090317150356.6f6cc9aa@scorpio> (Jerry's message of "Tue\, 17 Mar 2009 15\:03\:56 -0400") Message-ID: <44wsaoezlw.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: Re: Finding Dependencies X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:08:47 -0000 Jerry writes: > Assuming program: 'foo', how can I determine what other programs depend > on 'foo', not what programs 'foo' depends on? I have a program on my > system and I want to determine what other programs are dependent upon > it. 'pkg_info' doesn't seem to give me that information. Yes, it does. With the '-R' option. The manual is our friend... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/