Hi Chris, Chris Rawnsley wrote on Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 01:34:28PM +0100:
> I am looking for a way to show a package's dependencies. As far as i know, the normal ways to do that are: # direct run dependencies only cd /usr/ports/mail/mutt; make run-depends-list cd /usr/ports/mail/mutt; make show=RUN_DEPENDS # direct library package dependencies only cd /usr/ports/mail/mutt; make lib-depends-list cd /usr/ports/mail/mutt; make show=LIB_DEPENDS # direct run and library package dependencies only pkg_info -qf mutt | grep ^@depend grep -F '|mail/mutt|' /usr/local/share/ports-INDEX | cut -d \| -f 8 # direct build dependencies only grep -F '|mail/mutt|' /usr/local/share/ports-INDEX | cut -d \| -f 9 cd /usr/ports/mail/mutt; make build-depends-list # all run dependencies, recursive cd /usr/ports/mail/mutt; make print-run-depends cd /usr/ports/mail/mutt; make full-run-depends cd /usr/ports/mail/mutt; make show-run-depends cd /usr/ports/mail/mutt; make run-dir-depends # all shared library dependencies, recursive pkg_info -qf mutt | grep ^@wantlib # direct run and package library dependencies, and all shared libs recursive pkg_info -qS mutt # all build dependencies, recursive cd /usr/ports/mail/mutt; make print-build-depends cd /usr/ports/mail/mutt; make full-build-depends cd /usr/ports/mail/mutt; make build-dir-depends # all dependencies, recursive cd /usr/ports/mail/mutt; make full-all-depends cd /usr/ports/mail/mutt; make all-dir-depends The above list is not complete. For example, i skipped ways to inspect test dependencies, and i refrained from explaining possibilities that use the port "databases/sqlports", which is very powerful. Finally, i may have missed some ways this can be done. All this is kind of typical for the pkg tools: one question typically allows several different answers. There typically isn't one single, canonical way of doing something. There typically isn't one unified output format, but several different ways to represent information in the output. Part of that is due to the unavoidable complexity of the system. Other parts may be influenced by the fact that espie@ is not tedu@. > Does such a command such as this already exist? I guessed that the > pkg_* tools would have this covered but I was not able to find it > in the manpages. Yes, finding stuff in the pkg/ports manual pages sometimes isn't easy due to their size and complexity - even though they are typically concise, at times even terse. > In making the above example, I created a proof of concept shell > script that demonstrates the desired behaviour. We certainly don't need yet more ways to do the same, and certainly not by creating wrappers around what is already there. Besides, directly inspecting the contents of /var/db/pkg/ by anything that is not part of the pkg tools is fragile and not acceptable. All that said, it might be useful if, in addition to -S, pkg_add(1) could recursively list run-time dependencies. That isn't possible for packages that are not installed, but it should be possible to implement for installed packages. The current situation is arguably not ideal for users since i don't see a way to recursively get run-time dependencies without either * going to /usr/ports/ and running make(1) * using databases/sqlports * writing your own script recursively calling "pkg_info -qS", then postprocessing with sort(1) and uniq(1) Yours, Ingo
