On Sat, 2 Feb 2013 20:47:50 -0800, Sean Lake <odysseus9...@gmail.com> 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. :)
I've long used a one-liner based on that approach to determine reverse-dependencies... fink -m list --format=dotty-build | grep ' "somepkg"' | cut -d\" -f2 Depending on the types of packages of interest, -m might not be needed and could use --format=dotty instead of dotty-build. The 'fink list' stage of the pipeline is SLOW, so if you're going to be doing this a bunch of times, might be good to dump that intermediate result to a temp file to use repeatedly. dan -- Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
