--- Viv Kendon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Tarek Rached wrote:
>
> >> You can't replace it with, say, compress-zlib-pm581? What package
> >> depends a -560 and only -560 version?
> >
> > I'm not actually sure what depends on it. I know the fink commands
> to
> > see what packages a given package depends on, but not what packages
> are
> > dependant on a given package.
>
> Try removing it (fink remove compress-zlib-pm560): fink will
> complain it can't do it because xxx package depends on it,
> thereby telling you which package it is... Or, maybe it
> will just remove it because nothing depends on it
> (especially if you install one of the later compress-zlib
> packages first). In which case, problem solved.
Well, that seemed to do it! (Removing and then just not reinstalling,
that is...)
Thanks a ton, everyone!
Tarek.
PS. Not sure if this is of any use to anyone, but In trying to figure
out what packages depended on compress-zlib-pm560, I whipped up this
perl script to show-deps on a bunch of packages and grep for the
dependant package of interest....
the first argument is the package of interest; the rest of the args are
packages whose dependance on the package of interest is unknown (and
i even tried to not make that sound confusing :) )
check-parent-deps.pl
-----------------------------
#!/usr/bin/perl
# first arg is the dependee, the rest are the dependors
$| =1;
$dep_pack = shift @ARGV;
for $pack (@ARGV){
print "Checking $pack...";
$out = `fink show-deps $pack`;
if ($out =~/$dep_pack/ ) {
print "YEP!\n";
push @found, $pack;
} else {
print "no\n";
}
}
print "Found " . scalar @found ." of ". scalar @ARGV . " packages that
depend on $dep_pack:\n";
for $pack (@found) {
print $pack."\n";
}
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