---
name: "botch-wanna-build-sortblockers"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "botch"
version: "0.24-6+b1"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/botch-wanna-build-sortblockers"
---

# botch-wanna-build-sortblockers(1)

importance of source packages for ports

## NAME

botch-wanna-build-sortblockers - importance of source packages for ports

## SYNOPSIS

- **botch-wanna-build-sortblockers** \[options\] *build-attempt-list* *importance-metric*

  ## DESCRIPTION

Filter the output of botch-calcportsmetric for "build-attempted" packages from wanna-build.

## OPTIONS

- **-h, --help**

  Show help.

- **-r, --reverse**

  reverse the result of comparisons

- **-m, --min**

  sort by minimum number of blocked source packages (default)

- **-M, --max**

  sort by maximum number of blocked source packages

- **--min-popcon**

  sort by minimum sum of popcon values of the blocked source packages

- **--max-popcon**

  sort by maximum sum of popcon values of the blocked source packages

- **-v, --verbose**

  Be verbose.

## EXAMPLE

Either download an importance file:

```
 wget http://bootstrap.debian.net/importance_metric_noall.txt
```

Or generate it:

```
 zcat packages_amd64.gz | grep-dctrl -FArchitecture all > available
 botch-create_graph --deb-native-arch=amd64 --available=available --strongtype packages sources > strongbuildgraph.xml
 botch-buildgraph2srcgraph --deb-native-arch=amd64 strongbuildgraph.xml packages sources > strongsrcgraph.xml
 botch-create_graph --deb-native-arch=amd64 --available=available --closuretype packages sources > closurebuildgraph.xml
 botch-buildgraph2srcgraph --deb-native-arch=amd64 closurebuildgraph.xml packages sources > closuresrcgraph.xml
 botch-calcportsmetric --online strongsrcgraph.xml closuresrcgraph.xml > importance_metric_noall.txt
```

And then do:

```
 ssh buildd_arm64@buildd.debian-ports.org  wanna-build -A arm64 -d unstable -l  build-attempted > build-attempted
 botch-wanna-build-findblockers build-attempted importance_metric_noall.txt
```

## BUGS

See \<http://bugs.debian.org/botch\>.

## SEE ALSO

Debian doc-base Manual */usr/share/doc/botch/wiki/Home.html*

## AUTHOR

This man page was written by Johannes Schauer. Botch is written by Johannes Schauer and Pietro Abate.

## COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2012-2014 Johannes Schauer, Pietro Abate

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. A special linking exception to the GNU Lesser General Public License applies to this library, see the COPYING file for more information.