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#1 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 04:51 AM

How can I find out what packages are required for a certain package?
I tried "pkg_info -D package_name.tgz" but it produced no output.

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#2 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 04:51 AM

On 3 Nov 2003, Zoong Pham wrote:

> How can I find out what packages are required for a certain package?
> I tried "pkg_info -D package_name.tgz" but it produced no output.

that's because -D isn't supposed to print dependencies. try pkg_info -v

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#3 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 04:51 AM

In article <Pine.GSO.4.44.0311030037430.13196-100000@elaine40.Stanford.EDU>, Ted Unangst wrote:
> that's because -D isn't supposed to print dependencies. try pkg_info -v

Thanks Ted, pkg_info -v package_name does list dependencies.
Note that package_name doesn't contains ".tgz".

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#4 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 04:52 AM

In article <slrnbqcbal.6o4.dpham@websvr01.mercy.com.au>, Zoong Pham wrote:
> In article <Pine.GSO.4.44.0311030037430.13196-100000@elaine40.Stanford.EDU>, Ted Unangst wrote:
>> that's because -D isn't supposed to print dependencies. try pkg_info -v
>
> Thanks Ted, pkg_info -v package_name does list dependencies.
> Note that package_name doesn't contains ".tgz".
>

I just find out the above only works if I have a package and its
dependencies all installed.

Is there a way that I can find the dependencies of a package that
I am about to install?
Say I downloaded packaged abc-123.tgz. I want to know what are
other packages (def-456.tgz, xyz-789.tgz, etc ...) that are required
by abc-123.tgz. So I can download the all the dependencies.

I just want to download only packages I need for a package so I can do
run pkg_add locally.

And I don't think the OBSD website lists dependencies of a given package.

TIA,
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Zoong PHAM UNIX Systems Administrator
Mercy Health and Aged Care Inc. Melbourne - Australia
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#5 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 04:52 AM

On 5 Nov 2003, Zoong Pham wrote:

> Is there a way that I can find the dependencies of a package that
> I am about to install?

personally, i just keep trying to add it until it works.

> Say I downloaded packaged abc-123.tgz. I want to know what are
> other packages (def-456.tgz, xyz-789.tgz, etc ...) that are required
> by abc-123.tgz. So I can download the all the dependencies.

if you run pkg_info -v on the tgz, you should see lines similar to
pkg_info(ogle-0.9.1): unknown command type 20
(ogle-0.9.1:mad.1.0:mad-*:mad-0.14.2b)

which probably isn't the best output, but indicates that ogle depends on
mad.

> I just want to download only packages I need for a package so I can do
> run pkg_add locally.

> And I don't think the OBSD website lists dependencies of a given package.

running make show=LIB_DEPENDS and show=RUN_DEPENDS in the ports tree will
spit out this info, as will the html files made by make readmes. you can
use this as a reference, and still download packages.

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#6 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 04:53 AM

In article <Pine.GSO.4.44.0311042036460.24183-100000@elaine29.Stanford.EDU>, Ted Unangst wrote:
> running make show=LIB_DEPENDS and show=RUN_DEPENDS in the ports tree will
> spit out this info, as will the html files made by make readmes. you can
> use this as a reference, and still download packages.

Thanks again Ted.
It sounds good. I will give it a try.

BTW, what flags of make in the port tree are available apart from
show=LIB_DEPENDS and show=RUN_DEPENDS ?
I guess the common ones should be clean, test/check, distclean, etc...

Cheers,
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Mercy Health and Aged Care Inc. Melbourne - Australia
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#7 (**permalink**) 02-16-2008, 04:53 AM

On 5 Nov 2003, Zoong Pham wrote:

> BTW, what flags of make in the port tree are available apart from
> show=LIB_DEPENDS and show=RUN_DEPENDS ?
> I guess the common ones should be clean, test/check, distclean, etc...

have a look at man ports and man bsd.port.mk

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