Re: Tools for pkgsrc

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Sat, 31 May 2008 11:55:56 +0200
Christian Baer <christian.baer%uni-dortmund.de@localhost> wrote:

> Hiya folks!
> 
> This is a FreeBSD-person kinda looking for things he knows. :-) There 
> were a few gadgets in the FreeBSD-ports that I liked to use and I am 
> looking for things that do similar jobs.
> 
> I remember I asked a while back about something like portupgrade and 
> there was a long discussion on the list about this. I'll find that
> again in the archives...
> 
> Two things I'm missing a bit are portsopt (showes the compile options
> of a port). Nothing that saves the universe but a nice thing to have,
> as it is a fair bit nicer than reading the makefile on foot.

Does 'make show-options' do what you want?

> The
> other is pkg_cutleaves, a really neat thingy that looks for installed
> packages and offers to remove them if they are not required by any
> other installed package(s).
> 
There's the pkg_leaves package; also see pkgdepgraph. 



                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb