Re: funny results with 'port list inactive'

On Aug 23, 2006, at 8:08 AM, James Berry wrote:
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> On Aug 22, 2006, at 11:51 PM, Bryan Blackburn wrote:
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>> 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 prefer to have output similar to the one given by 'port outdated'.
>>>
>
> The pseudo portnames basically expand to a list of ports. By saying  
> "port list inactive" you are effectively passing each port on the  
> command line to list, which is giving you output for each. The  
> command has no opportunity to look at the request from a high level  
> and say "well, duh, there are no inactive ports.
>

Ah, so in this case, 'port list inactive' logically became just 'port  
list' since the inactive part ended up empty?

>> 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).
>
> Yes, sortof. But list will provide output about any specific ports  
> that you name for it. In the case of "port list apache2", it would  
> give list-style output about apache2. In the case of "port list  
> all" it will separately give output about each port. Note that  
> "port list" is a more efficient way to do the later, as it requires  
> much less processing by port.
>

Then perhaps the man page should, for the 'list' target, say 'List  
ports which match the given port or pseudo-port, or all ports when no  
arguments given.  If given a pseudo-port, expands it prior to  
listing, which could result in ALL ports being shown when the pseudo- 
port evaluates to no ports.' since this handling is kinda confusing?   
Though my new wording is somewhat confusing as well...

Bryan


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>>
>>> All the best,
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Wojciech Grzemski <[email protected]>            "On Margate  
>>> Sands..."
>>>
>>>
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