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6 build-rdeps - find packages that depend on a specific package to build
7 (reverse build depends)
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10 build-rdeps package
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13 build-rdeps searches for all packages that build-depend on the
14 specified package.
15 The default behaviour is to just `grep` for the given dependency in the
17 Build-Depends field of apt's Sources files.
18 If the package dose-extra >= 4.0 is installed, then a more complete
20 reverse build dependency computation is carried out. In particular,
21 with that package installed, build-rdeps will find transitive reverse
22 dependencies, respect architecture and build profile restrictions, take
23 Provides relationships, Conflicts, Pre-Depends, Build-Depends-Arch and
24 versioned dependencies into account and correctly resolve multiarch
25 relationships for crossbuild reverse dependency resolution. (This
26 tends to be a slow process due to the complexity of the package
27 interdependencies.)
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30 -u, --update
31 Run apt-get update before searching for build-depends.
32 -s, --sudo
34 Use sudo when running apt-get update. Has no effect if -u is
35 omitted.
36 --distribution
38 Select another distribution, which is searched for build-depends.
39 --only-main
41 Ignore contrib and non-free
42 --exclude-component
44 Ignore the given component (e.g. main, contrib, non-free).
45 --origin
47 Restrict the search to only the specified origin (such as
48 "Debian").
49 -m, --print-maintainer
51 Print the value of the maintainer field for each package.
52 --host-arch
54 Explicitly set the host architecture. The default is the value of
55 `dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH`. This option only works if
56 dose-extra >= 4.0 is installed.
57 --build-arch
59 Explicitly set the build architecture. The default is the value of
60 `dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_ARCH`. This option only works if
61 dose-extra >= 4.0 is installed.
62 --no-arch-all, --no-arch-any
64 Ignore Build-Depends-Indep or Build-Depends-Arch while looking for
65 reverse dependencies.
66 --old
68 Force the old simple behaviour without dose-ceve support even if
69 dose-extra >= 4.0 is installed. (This tends to be faster.)
70 Notice, that the old behaviour only finds direct dependencies,
72 ignores virtual dependencies, does not find transitive dependencies
73 and does not take version relationships, architecture restrictions,
74 build profiles or multiarch relationships into account.
75 --quiet
77 Don't print meta information (header, counter). Making it easier to
78 use in scripts.
79 -d, --debug
81 Run the debug mode
82 --help
84 Show the usage information.
85 --version
87 Show the version information.
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90 The tool requires apt Sources files to be around for the checked
91 components. In the default case this means that in /var/lib/apt/lists
92 files need to be around for main, contrib and non-free.
93 In practice this means one needs to add one deb-src line for each
95 component, e.g.
96 deb-src http://<mirror>/debian <dist> main contrib non-free
98 and run apt-get update afterwards or use the update option of this
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103 This code is copyright by Patrick Schoenfeld <schoenfeld@debian.org>,
104 all rights reserved. This program comes with ABSOLUTELEY NO WARRANTY.
105 You are free to redistribute this code under the terms of the GNU
106 General Public License, version 2 or later.
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109 Patrick Schoenfeld <schoenfeld@debian.org>
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