Tabitha McNerney wrote: > On 5/30/08, Rainer Müller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $ port deps Xft2 @2.1.12_0 >> @version is ignored for port deps. >> >> port deps takes infos from PortIndex only, so it may not always be >> accurate. > > Meaning, if a port has changed (or a new port has been added) but the > PortIndex has not been updated?
Exactly. Or the port has been installed before, but a new PortIndex (and Portfile) was synced later which adds a new dependency. > [...] > So this would really be the only way (with a machine and parsing software) > to automatically confirm the probable version information of the ldap > (openldap port) variant for the library dependency when ldap is a variant > tacked on to postfix? Hmmmmmm.... *taking a deep thought* Aaaah, port info! Use like this: $ port info --depends_build --depends_lib --depends_run postfix +ldap You can also add --line to compress the output to one line only. You can hide the label in front of the line and error output by using port -q info. As variants are also parsed from the @version notation, you can simply call this as: $ port -q info --line --depends_build --depends_lib --depends_run \ postfix @2.4.6_0+ldap+pcre+sasl+tls But if you only need the set of variants you have currently installed: $ port -q info --line --depends_build --depends_lib --depends_run \ postfix and installed And if you need this for multiple installed ports, this is also possible. You can use port echo to check to what such a port list expands: $ port echo \( postfix openldap \) and installed "or" is the default logical operator in such lists, so you do not need to write it explicitely. There is still a little bug though, port -q info --depends_build postfix outputs the usual info as postfix does not have dependencies. I am going to have a look into this. These are awesome features of port, don't you think? I hope you didn't invest too much work into writing your own parser for Portfiles... But I have to admit I would have never gotten the idea to use port info if I would not have made other changes to port/port.tcl today. :-) Maybe we should really make port deps aware of variants. Rainer _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users
