NAME

finddeps-distmeta — parse Perl-module's distmeta file and find dependencies

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The finddeps-distmeta utility parses so-called “distmeta” (CPAN distribution metadata) of Perl-module and find dependencies. It shows dependencies that are in the core Perl distribution and searches missing modules in the existing installed “p5-*” packages.

finddeps-distmeta operates on packages' sources repository to search dependencies in the packages' footprints, and therefore requires pkgman(1).

The options are as follows:

-v, --version

Print version and exit.

-h, --help

Print help and exit.

EXAMPLES

The typical usage of finddeps-distmeta is to call it from the Perl's module directory:

cd /var/cache/pkgmk/sources/URI-5.17
finddeps-distmeta

Or to specify the location of META.yml file manually:

finddeps-distmeta /var/cache/pkgmk/source/URI-5.17/META.yml

Another convenient way is to call finddeps-distmeta from the Pkgfile when you're building the package:

build() {
        cd URI-$version

        finddeps-distmeta
        ...
}

So, you can check the output, fix “Depends on:” field and remove unnecessary call afterwards.

SEE ALSO

finddeps-linked(1), findredundantdeps(1)

BUGS

Currently, finddeps-distmeta parses only META.yml file, which is generated by ExtUtils::MakeMaker(3pm). The parsing of META.json isn't added yet.