On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> immo vero scripsit > > > > 3.24463e+09 liburi-perl > > > > You need to debug your script. We don't have this much packages in any of > > our archives. Not even... > > > > [...] > > > 29169746 readline4 > > > > ... this much. > > > > I think this signifies that packages depend on itself to build. > > I can detect A->A relationship easily, but > A->B->C->A cannot easily be detected.
Sure you can. Create a linked list of all packages: package->package->package->package->... Then go through this linked list once, and create bi-directional pointers (or references, depending on the language being used ;-) to all packages this particular package depends on. You'll then get some web of package dependencies, while being able to find loops in the process. It'll probably need a *lot* of time to process, but that's something else... -- wouter dot verhelst at advalvas dot be "Human knowledge belongs to the world" -- from the movie "Antitrust"
