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On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 01:32:42PM -0600, Peter Ziobrzynski wrote: |
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> Is there a way to get the list of packages that depend on a package |
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> (dependent packages) then doing grep through the /var/db/pkgs like that? |
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> cd /var/db/pkg |
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> find . -name DEPEND | xargs grep avifile |
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> Unfortunately this only lists locally installed packages. |
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> The reverse operation for finding a list of dependent packages for a |
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> package is provided with 'emerge --emptytree -p mozilla'. Is there |
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> something like that for the first question? |
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[06:24 PM]wwong ~ $ equery belongs equery |
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[ Searching for file(s) equery in *... ] |
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app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0 (/usr/bin/equery) |
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app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.0 (/usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0_pre10/equery) |
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[06:38 PM]wwong ~ $ equery depends avifile |
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[ Searching for packages depending on avifile... ] |
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[06:39 PM]wwong ~ $ equery depends ffmpeg |
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[ Searching for packages depending on ffmpeg... ] |
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media-libs/xine-lib-1.0.1-r3 |
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(I don't have avifile installed) |
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so... emerge gentoolkit |
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run equery with no arguments to see what it can do. |
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