BUILD-RDEPS

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Updated: 2016-07-25
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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>