[gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable
Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 12 November 2008 22:04:52 Harry Putnam wrote: With recent changes in portage in the last few mnths, is equery in general and `equery depends' in particular still reliable? I use it fairly often still, but do notice I get a lot of null output. So I no longer trust it fully. At least it doesn't give false positives - what's in the putput really is a valid depend. Do you know off hand if there are any alternatives?
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable
Harry Putnam schrieb am 12.11.2008 23:43: Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 12 November 2008 22:04:52 Harry Putnam wrote: With recent changes in portage in the last few mnths, is equery in general and `equery depends' in particular still reliable? I use it fairly often still, but do notice I get a lot of null output. So I no longer trust it fully. At least it doesn't give false positives - what's in the putput really is a valid depend. Do you know off hand if there are any alternatives? emerge -pv --depclean atom signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable
Harry Putnam wrote: Alan McKinnon[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wednesday 12 November 2008 22:04:52 Harry Putnam wrote: With recent changes in portage in the last few mnths, is equery in general and `equery depends' in particular still reliable? I use it fairly often still, but do notice I get a lot of null output. So I no longer trust it fully. At least it doesn't give false positives - what's in the putput really is a valid depend. Do you know off hand if there are any alternatives? dep from app-portage/udept just got recommended to me, but I don't know it's trustworthiness either. -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth. -- Benjamin Disraeli
[gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable
Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With recent changes in portage in the last few mnths, is equery in general and `equery depends' in particular still reliable? I use it fairly often still, but do notice I get a lot of null output. So I no longer trust it fully. At least it doesn't give false positives - what's in the putput really is a valid depend. Do you know off hand if there are any alternatives? emerge -pv --depclean atom I realize cryptic answers are the ultimate in cleverness and show massive sophistication but how is this used to show dependencies to some specific package. Maybe a little more detail would keep my little pea brain from smoking under the load ;)
[gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable
Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Do you know off hand if there are any alternatives? dep from app-portage/udept just got recommended to me, but I don't know it's trustworthiness either. Looks promising .. thanks
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable
Harry Putnam wrote: Daniel Pielmeier[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: emerge -pv --depclean atom I realize cryptic answers are the ultimate in cleverness and show massive sophistication but how is this used to show dependencies to some specific package. Maybe a little more detail would keep my little pea brain from smoking under the load ;) I realise when you've been debugging for a while you're brain may get a bit frazzled, but if you looked at `man emerge` you would find the answer. In sympathy, here are the relevant parts: SYNOPSIS emerge [options] [action] [ebuild | tbz2file | file | @set | atom] ... atom An atom describes bounds on a package that you wish to install. See portage(5) for the details on atom syntax. For example, =dev-lang/python-2.2.1-r2 ... --depclean --- Use --depclean together with --verbose to show reverse dependencies. Now, I have to leave you with something to do to find the _exact_ syntax in your situation :) -- Iain Buchanan iaindb at netspace dot net dot au A Smith Wesson beats four aces.
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 2:06 AM, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With recent changes in portage in the last few mnths, is equery in general and `equery depends' in particular still reliable? I use it fairly often still, but do notice I get a lot of null output. So I no longer trust it fully. At least it doesn't give false positives - what's in the putput really is a valid depend. Do you know off hand if there are any alternatives? emerge -pv --depclean atom I realize cryptic answers are the ultimate in cleverness and show massive sophistication but how is this used to show dependencies to some specific package. Maybe a little more detail would keep my little pea brain from smoking under the load ;) Why did you not simply try, you lazy fat SUV owner? Here, I'll do it for you. But I imagine if this will not spoil you even more. $ emerge -pv --depc ffmpeg Calculating dependencies ... done! media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20080326 pulled in by: media-sound/sox-14.2.0 media-video/ffmpeg2theora-0.22 net-libs/opal-2.2.11 net-www/gnash-0.8.4 No packages selected for removal by depclean Packages installed: 577 Packages in world:134 Packages in system: 50 Unique package names: 577 Required packages:575 Number to remove: 0 -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable
2008/11/13 Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Daniel Pielmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: emerge -pv --depclean atom I realize cryptic answers are the ultimate in cleverness and show massive sophistication but how is this used to show dependencies to some specific package. Maybe a little more detail would keep my little pea brain from smoking under the load ;) What is the cryptic part here? The answer tells you anything you need to know. Plus reading some documentation if you don't understand some bits is always useful. And if you are frightened of depclean you should at least know what -p means so this wont damage anything. Regarding udept, I would really like the idea if someone ore the original maintainer starts continuing this excellent tool. For now it works quite reliable but being unmaintained I fear it will get more and more unusable. -- Regards, Daniel
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Is equery depends still viable
On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 16:43:14 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: Do you know off hand if there are any alternatives? qdepends -Q pkgname qdepends is part of portage-utils. -- Neil Bothwick Windows: just another pane in the glass signature.asc Description: PGP signature
