BUILD-RDEPS

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 AT debian DOT 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 AT debian DOT org>