Re: Port dependency tool (if that's what you'd call it)

Modulok wrote:
I'm not quite sure how to put into word what I want, so bear with me. Is
there a tool in the base system which does something along these lines:

1. Look at the makefile of a given port as far as its RUN_DEPENDS and
BUILD_DEPENDS.
2. Subtracting what I have already installed, provide me with information
about what would be fetched (and possibly installed) in an easy-to-digest
format, recursively (for all dependents of dependents ... and so on).

If not part of the base system, is there a port which offers this
functionality?

The standard ports for this kind of functionality are

port-mgmt/portupgrade
port-mgmt/portmaster

'portupgrade' is the older utility; 'portmaster' has recently come on the "scene", with slightly different aims. I use 'portupgrade' as I haven't really spent the time to learn about 'portmaster'.

Once 'portupgrade' is installed, and you have built its database with 'pkgdb', you should be able to answer your second question via

freebsd$ portupgrade --noexecute --upward-recursive PORTNAME

where PORTNAME is the name of the port (qv. 'ports_glob' for how this is specified) to give you information on what needs to be updated. You might need to trim the output a bit to get the succinct list of dependencies that need updating, but the output of 'portupgrade' is quite regular so a little regexp'in in your preferred scripting language should bring you to the result you want.

There may be other more direct routes to the information you seek, but this way will definitely work.




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