Re: funny results with 'port list inactive'

On Aug 22, 2006, at 10:34 PM, Wojciech Grzemski wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was in the process of upgrading my ports collection, when I've  
> noticed that:
> $ port list inactive | wc -l
>   3481
> $ port list | wc -l
>   3481
>
> Is this to be expected?  Knowing that I have no inactive ports I would
> prefer to have output similar to the one given by 'port outdated'.
>

Note that the list command (from the man page) will "List all  
available ports" so any arguments to it are most likely superfluous,  
by my reading.  I think you want things like 'port installed' and  
perhaps 'port installed inactive' (but since I don't use port images,  
I can't test if this works).

> Also I seem to have quite a funny timings with different commands:
> time for 'port list':
> 	real    0m0.795s
> 	user    0m0.538s
> 	sys     0m0.100s
>
> time for  'port list all'
> 	real    8m15.081s
> 	user    7m48.300s
> 	sys     0m17.354s
>
> time for 'port list | sort' (which seems to return the same list as
> 'port list all'):
> 	real    0m0.843s
> 	user    0m0.537s
> 	sys     0m0.135s
>
> Would anyone care to comment, explain?  My version of Darw^H^H^H^H  
> MacPorts is 1.320.
>

The timing difference in 'port list all' is probably some  
multiplicative effect where it is running list for each port (and  
getting the same list each time) or something strange...

Bryan


> All the best,
>
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