On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 06:48:56AM -0700, Steve Bellovin wrote:
> Often, when I try to install or update a package, the installation
> aborts because I need to update something else first.  Is there any 
> tool that, if given a package name, will look through the dependency 
> information and figure out everything that will need to be compiled?  
> (A lovely enhancement would be if it could generate all of the 
> appropriate 'make fetch' commands, so I could download everything and 
> rebuild while running disconnected.)

You can use 'make show-depends-dirs' to get a list of the compile
dependencies that you'll need.

You can also use
for i in `cd graphics/gimp && make show-depends-dirs && cd ../..`; do cd $i && make show-distfiles && cd ../..; done

which will give you a list of all the files that will need to make the
update successful. (Replace graphics/gimp with what you're trying to install)

You could do:
for i in `cd graphics/gimp && make show-depends-dirs && cd ../..`; do cd $i && make fetch && cd ../..; done

to concatenate all the make fetches you'll have to do

This might be evil shell script, but what the hey it works :)
(On zsh, so probably sh and bash too)

 - Chris

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