Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 14:10:48 +0100 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>, freebsd-pkg@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dependency graph? Message-ID: <5389D4D8.6060604@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <20140531122127.GA4538@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> References: <20140531065218.GB169@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <538991E0.5000902@FreeBSD.org> <20140531122127.GA4538@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
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On 31/05/2014 13:21, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Matthew Seaman wrote: >>> Sometimes you attempt to "pkg install" a simple package and find out >>> that it attempts to install a load of crap (like X libraries) because of >>> some obscure dependency. >>> >>> Is there a tool that would analyze the repository metadata and display >>> a dependency tree for a package? >>> >>> All the necessary dependency information is already in the repository >>> in JSON (?) or sqlite format, perhaps someone has already come up with >>> a script to display that? >> >> Not to my knowledge. Generating output suitable for feeding into dot >> should be pretty easy, just based on processing the output of 'pkg query' > > To my knowledge, 'pkg query' works with the locally installed packages. > Can it really query a remote repository, and if yes, could you please give an > example query? > > When I issue 'pkg query %do some_package_not_installed_locally', it > returns an empty result. pkg rquery
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