BUILD-RDEPS(1)
NAME
build-rdeps - find packages that depend on a specific package to build
(reverse build depends)
SYNOPSIS
build-rdeps package
DESCRIPTION
build-rdeps searches for all packages that build-depend on the
specified package.
OPTIONS
- -u --update
- Run apt-get update before searching for build-depends.
- -s --sudo
- Use sudo when running apt-get update. Has no effect if -u is
omitted. - --distribution
- Select another distribution, which is searched for build-depends.
- --only-main
- Ignore contrib and non-free
- --exclude-component
- Ignore the given component (e.g. main, contrib, non-free).
- --origin
- Restrict the search to only the specified origin (such as
"Debian"). - -m --print-maintainer
- Print the value of the maintainer field for each package.
- -d --debug
- Run the debug mode
- --help
- Show the usage information.
- --version
- Show the version information.
REQUIREMENTS
The tool requires apt Sources files to be around for the checked
components. In the default case this means that in /var/lib/apt/lists
files need to be around for main, contrib and non-free.
In practice this means one needs to add one deb-src line for each
component, e.g.
deb-src http://<mirror>/debian <dist> main contrib non-free
and run apt-get update afterwards or use the update option of this
tool.
LICENSE
This code is copyright by Patrick Schoenfeld <schoenfeld@debian.org>,
all rights reserved. This program comes with ABSOLUTELEY NO WARRANTY.
You are free to redistribute this code under the terms of the GNU
General Public License, version 2 or later.
AUTHOR
- Patrick Schoenfeld <schoenfeld@debian.org>