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From: "Paweł Hajdan
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] finding reverse dependencies for arch testing (and other purposes)
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2011 17:31:20
Message-Id: 4E777C29.6040409@gentoo.org
1 I uploaded my script for finding reverse dependencies here:
2 http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/arch-tools.git;a=summary
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4 Advantages over existing solutions (browsing to websites like tinderbox
5 or qa-reports):
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7 - only prints stable packages when run on a stable system (no need to
8 manually filter out things)
9 - takes a list of packages as input, making it more effective for a
10 batch workflow (we're short on time, batching is often critical)
11 - produces output that can be fed to emerge after stripping comment
12 lines (no junk after package names); again this is for the batch workflow
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14 It is still reasonably fast. On my machine it completes within 30 seconds.
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16 Comments welcome. I'd be very happy to adapt this to your needs. My main
17 goal is to share those little scripts I use with others so we can all
18 become more productive (and have more time for other things).
19
20 Paweł

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