On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 03:38:14PM +0100, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > > Because it runs 'port -q info --line --subports' and parses the > > result. The flags to info guarantee that only the list of subports > > is printed. > > Portindex? I'm pretty sure I've had a ui_msg for a while in one of my > PortGroups without ever running into side-effects. I kind of > appreciate certain messages in the portindex output, in fact.
No, the buildbot scripts. The rule still stands: Don't print anything from a Portfile outside of a phase. > On Sunday December 11 2016 14:59:52 Mojca Miklavec wrote: > > > There is no way to fix the buildbot scripts to work around that. > > I doubt that, esp. not if you consider the possibility (and overall > good idea) to extent `port info` to print information for machine > reading. 'port info' output is already parsed by scripts today. It's output is already machine-readable when using -q info --line --$fieldname. Your change breaks this. -- Clemens
