[oe] Recipes relation tree

[Frans Meulenbroeks]

2009/12/6 Graeme Gregory <dp at xora.org.uk>:
> On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 19:51:21 +0100
> Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 2009/12/6 Graeme Gregory <dp at xora.org.uk>:
>> > On Sun, 6 Dec 2009 13:17:16 +0100
>> > Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks at 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.
>

Ah ok, forgot that bitbake -g world would give me the complete graph <blush>

Thanks, FM