is PKG in base-devel or required by one in base-devel [solved]

graysky · 2015-01-24 15:34:11

Is there a simple way to tell if a particular package is either directly in base-devel or required by one in base-devel? I have run namcap against one of my AUR packages and found the following output:

profile-sync-daemon W: Dependency bash included but already satisfied
profile-sync-daemon W: Dependency included and not needed ('binutils')
profile-sync-daemon W: Dependency included and not needed ('coreutils')
profile-sync-daemon W: Dependency included and not needed ('gawk')
profile-sync-daemon W: Dependency glibc included but already satisfied
profile-sync-daemon W: Dependency included and not needed ('grep')
profile-sync-daemon W: Dependency included and not needed ('procps-ng')
profile-sync-daemon W: Dependency ncurses included but already satisfied
profile-sync-daemon W: Dependency included and not needed ('rsync')
profile-sync-daemon W: Dependency included and not needed ('sed')

I know the rsync warning is a false positive but wanted to check the others.

Last edited by graysky (2015-01-24 15:59:36)

Trilby · 2015-01-24 15:49:38

pacman -Si $(pactree -rl TESTPKG) 2>/dev/null | grep -q "^Groups *:.*base-devel"

returns true/false if TESTPKG is in or requred by anything in base-devel.

graysky · 2015-01-24 15:58:51

Excellent, thanks!

% TESTPKG=ncurses
% pacman -Si $(pactree -rl $TESTPKG) 2>/dev/null | grep -q "^Groups *:.*base-devel" ;echo $?
0

Last edited by graysky (2015-01-24 15:59:07)

graysky · 2015-01-24 17:04:06

...and added to the wiki: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … did=356560

progandy · 2015-01-24 17:31:39

I have a question. Is "pactree -rl" sufficient? I believe we should query the sync database instead. "pactree -srl" in case base-devel is not installed

Edit:

pactree -srl $FOO | LC_ALL=C pacman -Si - 2>/dev/null | grep -q "^Groups *:.* base-devel"
# or
pactree -srl $FOO | expac -S ' %G ' - | grep -q ' base-devel '

Last edited by progandy (2015-01-24 17:56:30)

Trilby · 2015-01-24 18:05:50

That does look better. But I also am not sure if dependencies of the standard base-devel packages should be excluded from dependency lists.

If your package requires glibc, for example, then list that. Lots of things in base-devel depend on glibc, but glibc is *not* in base-devel. gawk, for example depends on glibc and is the default package to satisfy 'awk' in base-devel. But one might make another awk that uses a different libc implementation - it may fully provide 'awk' but does not share all the same dependencies as gawk. In this case the there is a faulty assumption that AUR users should have everything that is a dependency of any of the typical base-devel packages.

graysky · 2015-01-25 00:50:51

If either of you are so inclined, feel free to change the wiki entry I posted as you see fit. Useful in either case I will say that Trilby's command runs much faster than progandy's commands:

% FOO=bash
% time  pacman -Si $(pactree -rl $FOO) 2>/dev/null | grep -q "^Groups *:.*base-devel" ;echo $?
pacman -Si $(pactree -rl $FOO) 2> /dev/null  0.09s user 0.00s system 97% cpu 0.099 total
grep --color=auto -q "^Groups *:.*base-devel"  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 0.097 total

% time pactree -srl $FOO | LC_ALL=C pacman -Si - 2>/dev/null | grep -q "^Groups *:.* base-devel"
pactree -srl $FOO  2.74s user 0.00s system 99% cpu 2.742 total
LC_ALL=C pacman -Si - 2> /dev/null  0.10s user 0.00s system 3% cpu 2.845 total
grep --color=auto -q "^Groups *:.* base-devel"  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 2.844 total

% time pactree -srl $FOO | expac -S ' %G ' - | grep -q ' base-devel '
pactree -srl $FOO  2.50s user 0.00s system 99% cpu 2.509 total
expac -S ' %G ' -  0.22s user 0.00s system 8% cpu 2.609 total
grep --color=auto -q ' base-devel '  0.00s user 0.00s system 0% cpu 2.608 total

Last edited by graysky (2015-01-25 00:54:41)

Allan · 2015-01-25 03:07:11

graysky wrote:

profile-sync-daemon W: Dependency bash included but already satisfied
profile-sync-daemon W: Dependency included and not needed ('binutils')
profile-sync-daemon W: Dependency included and not needed ('coreutils')
profile-sync-daemon W: Dependency included and not needed ('gawk')
profile-sync-daemon W: Dependency glibc included but already satisfied
profile-sync-daemon W: Dependency included and not needed ('grep')
profile-sync-daemon W: Dependency included and not needed ('procps-ng')
profile-sync-daemon W: Dependency ncurses included but already satisfied
profile-sync-daemon W: Dependency included and not needed ('rsync')
profile-sync-daemon W: Dependency included and not needed ('sed')

Just include the dependency if it is needed...

bash is guaranteed to be installed, and I'd say coreutils and glibc is too. But I'd include the rest.

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#1 2015-01-24 15:34:11

is PKG in base-devel or required by one in base-devel [solved]

#2 2015-01-24 15:49:38

Re: is PKG in base-devel or required by one in base-devel [solved]

#3 2015-01-24 15:58:51

Re: is PKG in base-devel or required by one in base-devel [solved]

#4 2015-01-24 17:04:06

Re: is PKG in base-devel or required by one in base-devel [solved]

#5 2015-01-24 17:31:39

Re: is PKG in base-devel or required by one in base-devel [solved]

#6 2015-01-24 18:05:50

Re: is PKG in base-devel or required by one in base-devel [solved]

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Re: is PKG in base-devel or required by one in base-devel [solved]

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Re: is PKG in base-devel or required by one in base-devel [solved]

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