On 2/2/13 9:47 PM, Sean Lake wrote: > Hello all, > > I recently ran into a problem removing the "obsolete" passwd package on the > 10.5 PPC fink. The package manager said there was a dependency, requiring me > to use "remove --recursive." I tried to find a way to see what package was > preventing the remove, but couldn't find one. Is there a way to see easily > what packages depend on a given package? It's easy enough to go the other > way, but I couldn't find a command to do what I wanted. I know that the > information is in there, somewhere, since fink couldn't generate the error > message otherwise. Does anyone know how to get that information? > > One odd idea I just had would be to dump the dependency tree into a graphviz > dot file and make a viewable pdf of the tree. :) > > Thanks, > Sean > > P.S. I ended up just doing a recursive remove and let fink remove the > package. The offending package was: > emacs22-carbon 22.3-3 > fink --version > Package manager version: 0.34.5 > Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Sat Feb 2 18:19:38 2013, 10.5, powerpc > Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto unstable/main unstable/crypto > > passwd 20130111-2 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Oops, the revision for emacs22-carbon didn't get bumped. The current version in the distribution depends on the _new_ passwd-games. "apt-cache showpkg <package>" is one way to get reverse dependency information. I'm not completely sure, but I believe that you'd need to keep current .debs for everything you have installed since there's no comprehensive binary distribution. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
