On Sat, 25 Jan 2014 20:34:51 -0500 Christopher Barry <christopher.r.ba...@gmail.com> wrote:
So, trying to see what depends on what, I discovered debtree - a very cool script that generates dependency graphs. # apt-get install debtree Then I ran it like so: # debtree -R e17 >/tmp/out.dot \ && dot -T png -o /tmp/out.png /tmp/out.dot \ && gpicview /tmp/out.png See output image here: http://www.pasteall.org/pic/show.php?id=65797 I hacked up a quick wrapper to make it a bit easier to use. saveas debgraph somewhere in the path, chown root:root, and chmod 750 watch for any line-wrapping from this email... -C #!/bin/bash # generate a dependency graph of a package DEBTREE=debtree DOT=dot VIEWER=gpicview TMPDIR=/tmp [[ "$(id -u)" == "0" ]] || { echo "gotta be root"; exit 1; } [[ ${#} -gt 0 ]] || { echo "generate and view dependency graphs for deb packages" echo "Usage: $0 [see 'man debtree' for options] <pkgname>" exit 1 } args=("$@") TMPFN=${TMPDIR}/${args[${#args[@]} - 1]}_dep-graph [[ $(which ${DEBTREE}) ]] || { echo "Error: $DEBTREE not installed." echo "use: apt-get install debtree" exit 1 } [[ $(which ${DOT}) ]] || { echo "Error: $DOT not installed." echo "use: apt-get install graphviz" exit 1 } [[ $(which ${VIEWER}) ]] || { echo "Error: $VIEWER not installed." echo "Either install it, or edit $0 with different VIEWER program" exit 1 } ${DEBTREE} $@ | ${DOT} -T png -o ${TMPFN}.png <(cat -) \ && ${VIEWER} ${TMPFN}.png # after exiting the viewer... read -p "Delete generated graph ${TMPFN}.png? [Yn] " ans case ${ans} in n|N) :: ;; *) rm -f ${TMPFN}.png ;; esac exit $? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
