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+#!/bin/sh
+#
+# [A] Tobias Hintze <th@rocklinux.org>
+# [A] Thomas "fake" Jakobi <fake@rapidnetworks.de>
+#
+# todo: support multiple packages as arguments and
+# combine common uses/usedby's
+
+[ -z "$1" -o "$1" == "-help" ] && {
+	cat <<EOF
+usage: $0 [ -usedby | -uses ] PKG [ SOURCE_TREE ]
+
+check \$SOURCE_TREE/scripts/dep_db.txt and print
+dependencies and dependants of given package.
+
+ -usedby: show only packages that depend on this package
+ -uses  : show only packages this package depends on
+
+EOF
+exit 1
+}
+
+uses=1
+usedby=1
+
+while [ ${1:0:1} == "-" ] ; do
+	case $1 in
+		-usedby)
+			uses=0
+			shift
+			;;	
+		-uses)
+			usedby=0
+			shift
+			;;
+	esac
+done
+
+if [ $usedby == 0 -a $uses == 0 ] ; then usedby=1 ; uses=1 ; fi
+
+
+if [ -n "$2" ] ; then
+	SOURCE_TREE=$2
+	if [ ! -f $SOURCE_TREE/scripts/dep_db.txt ] ; then
+		echo "no $SOURCE_TREE/scripts/dep_db.txt found."
+		exit 1
+	fi
+else
+	if [ -f ./scripts/dep_db.txt ] ; then
+		SOURCE_TREE=.
+	else
+		if [ -f /usr/src/rock-src/scripts/dep_db.txt ] ; then
+			echo "using /usr/src/rock-src/scripts/dep_db.txt instead."
+			SOURCE_TREE=/usr/src/rock-src
+		else
+			echo "no ./scripts/dep_db.txt found."
+			exit 1
+		fi
+	fi
+fi
+
+cd $SOURCE_TREE
+
+function print_nice() {
+	CNT=0
+	for pkg in $*
+	do
+		CNT=$(( $CNT+1 ));
+		printf "%-15s" ${pkg:0:14}
+		if [ $CNT -gt 3 ] ; then printf "\n" ; CNT=0 ; fi
+	done 
+	echo
+}
+
+if [ $uses == 1 ] ; then
+	echo
+	echo "$1 depends on:"
+	print_nice `grep "^$1: " ./scripts/dep_db.txt | cut -d" " -f4-`
+fi
+
+if [ $usedby == 1 ] ; then
+	echo
+	echo "packages depending on $1:"
+	print_nice `grep "\<$1\>" ./scripts/dep_db.txt | cut -d: -f1`
+fi
+echo
+