Subject: Re: finding the leaf packages
To: None <pkgsrc-users@NetBSD.org>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@NetBSD.org>
List: pkgsrc-users
Date: 06/16/2006 16:27:31
On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 10:09:30AM -0400, Johnny Lam wrote:
> Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> >Is there some simple way to get a list of all leaf packages, in the form
> >of, say, pkg_tools/pkgdepgrah. (I use that as a non-random example, since
> >it obviously knows how to do that, but I haven't figured out the options
> >to do it in any way other than as input to graphviz.)
>
> Metadata-wise, it's the list of all directories in ${PKG_DBDIR}
> (/var/db/pkg) that do not have a +REQUIRED_BY file, [...]
... or an empty one.
Geert