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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, non-free and non-free-firmware.
42 --exclude-component
44 Ignore the given component (e.g. main, contrib, non-free, non-free-
45 firmware).
46 --origin
48 Restrict the search to only the specified origin (such as
49 "Debian").
50 -m, --print-maintainer
52 Print the value of the maintainer field for each package.
53 --host-arch
55 Explicitly set the host architecture. The default is the value of
56 `dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_ARCH`. This option only works if
57 dose-extra >= 4.0 is installed.
58 --build-arch
60 Explicitly set the build architecture. The default is the value of
61 `dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_ARCH`. This option only works if
62 dose-extra >= 4.0 is installed.
63 --no-arch-all, --no-arch-any
65 Ignore Build-Depends-Indep or Build-Depends-Arch while looking for
66 reverse dependencies.
67 --old
69 Force the old simple behaviour without dose-ceve support even if
70 dose-extra >= 4.0 is installed. (This tends to be faster.)
71 Notice, that the old behaviour only finds direct dependencies,
73 ignores virtual dependencies, does not find transitive dependencies
74 and does not take version relationships, architecture restrictions,
75 build profiles or multiarch relationships into account.
76 -q, --quiet
78 Don't print meta information (header, counter). Making it easier to
79 use in scripts.
80 -d, --debug
82 Run the debug mode
83 --help
85 Show the usage information.
86 --version
88 Show the version information.
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91 The tool requires apt Sources files to be around for the checked
92 components. In the default case this means that in /var/lib/apt/lists
93 files need to be around for main, contrib, non-free and non-free-
94 firmware.
95 In practice this means one needs to add one deb-src line for each
97 component, e.g.
98 deb-src http://<mirror>/debian <dist> main contrib non-free non-free-
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101 and run apt-get update afterwards or use the update option of this
103 tool.
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106 This code is copyright by Patrick Schoenfeld <schoenfeld@debian.org>,
107 all rights reserved. This program comes with ABSOLUTELEY NO WARRANTY.
108 You are free to redistribute this code under the terms of the GNU
109 General Public License, version 2 or later.
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112 Patrick Schoenfeld <schoenfeld@debian.org>
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