Re: How to get date when port was added? To list ports added in last 1/2/3/.../X weeks?

2017-06-20 Thread db
On 19 Jun 2017, at 23:19, Kurt Pfeifle via macports-users wrote: > Though to determine what has changed in an existing (and known to me) > repository since a date is a useful feature too -- my curiosity right now is > itching about how to learn about completely newly added ports. ("Oh great --

Re: How to get date when port was added? To list ports added in last 1/2/3/.../X weeks?

2017-06-20 Thread Ken Cunningham
The Portfiles used to have the date they were added in the top line, which was handy to see if the port was ancient. This line was removed once macports moved to git, which was in a way too bad. I use something like this (from the root directory of my git fork of macports-ports) git log --pret

Re: How to get date when port was added? To list ports added in last 1/2/3/.../X weeks?

2017-06-20 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Jun 20, 2017, at 14:13, Ken Cunningham wrote: > The Portfiles used to have the date they were added in the top line, which > was handy to see if the port was ancient. This line was removed once macports > moved to git, which was in a way too bad. No, it was the date the last change was comm

Re: How to get date when port was added? To list ports added in last 1/2/3/.../X weeks?

2017-06-20 Thread Stephen Baber
I have written a UI for MacPorts used by some in our community. It implements this very feature you asked of. By clicking "What's new" and setting the number of days back, you will see ports whose backing Portfile was updated by rsync. It also shows a totals view for seeing port changes grouped

Missing /opt/local/share/man/whatis DB

2017-06-20 Thread Stephen Baber
Hi MacPorts architects/maintainers, Author of JPortsUI here. I have built features into the next version of my application that use the "whatis" DB to describe the executable files installed after MacPorts completes a "port install foo". Presently I am letting the user know that this feature won'