Re: Recipes relation tree

[Graeme Gregory <dp@xora.org.uk>]

On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 19:51:21 +0100
Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com> wrote:

> 2009/12/6 Graeme Gregory <dp@xora.org.uk>:
> > On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 13:17:16 +0100
> > Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> It would also be nice to be able to get the used by information.
> >> E.g. if I change a package (especially wrt staging) I would like to
> >> verify that the packages which use the modified package still
> >> build.
> >>
> >> The current el-cheapo solution for a package XYZ is to do something
> >> like a grep  DEPENDS.*XYZ */*.bb but of course that won't work if
> >> DEPENDS spans multiple lines.
> >>
> > bitbake -g target will drop a dependency graph in the directory you
> > run bitbake from.
> >
> > Graeme
> 
> Graeme, I know but I would like to have exacty the reverse: a list of
> packages that depend on the package at hand.
> bitbake -g gives all packages a package depends on, but I would like
> to have a list of packages that depend on a specific package.
> 
> so e.g. I want to get a list of packages that depend on libxml (and
> bitbake -g libxml gives me the packages libxml depends on).
> 
> I hope that clarifies my question.
> 
Still the same answer, bitbake -g world then parse the graph.

Graeme