BUG: 'port list <restriction criterion>' outputs all ports if no matches found

[frank.mcpherson@…]

In trying to write some scripts to help me manage old ports that I've upgraded past, I noticed this problem with 'port list'.

If I try to restrict the list somehow, for example say I'm looking for a certain maintainer:

'port list maintainer:portmgr' will only return DarwinPorts, the single port with that maintainer. However, if I search with a restriction that isn't present at all, for example I am not presently listed as a maintainer on any port, 'port list maintainer:frank.mcp' doesn't match any ports, it will return the entire list of nearly 3500 ports.

[jmpp@…]

Assigning this to James too, since he wrote the pseudo-portname searching feature. Tentatively setting it to the 1.5 milestone. What's your take on it, James?

-jmpp

[boeyms@…]

Adding reporter, assignee and jmpp to the Cc: field so that all actually receive notifications about this ticket, as documented in TracTicketing on the wiki.

[jberry@…]

Resolved in r25789. Added a hack that allows us to distinguish between no arguments to an action, and arguments which evalutate to the null set. This should improve the behavior of port installed, active, list, and search for these cases.