RFE: a LastModified field could be added to "port info" output

[ray@…]

If one goes to the port script, one can find the line:

if {[info exists portinfo(maintainers)]} { puts "Maintainers: $portinfo(maintainers)"}

One can then paste this in after that:

# find last update date, check for freshness set pfile [open [file normalize [darwinports::getportdir $portinfo(porturl)]]/Portfile] gets $pfile topLine close $pfile set result [regexp {(Portfile,v) ([0-9]+\.[0-9]+) ([0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]/[0-9][0-9]/[0-9][0-9] [0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9]:[0-9][0-9])} $topLine m1 m2 m3 m4] puts "LastModified: $m4"

Then, for example:

% port info render render 0.9, x11/render ​http://fontconfig.org/

{X Render Extension headers and documentation}

Build Dependencies: pkgconfig Platforms: darwin Maintainers: blb@… LastModified: 2005/10/19 08:10:17 %

I know the regular expression is non-optimal, but considering that I wrote my first bit of tcl about twenty minutes ago, I am ok with it.

Also, it would be better if, when the information from the Portfile is first read, this information was put into the portinfo array, but my tcl is not there yet, and this works.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Not sure if modification date is particularly useful for portfiles. It's very possible to have portfiles modified but no significant changes made. For example, I recently did a sweep where I added the Subversion keyword Id to all portfiles. Some portfiles that got touched may not have been otherwise updated in years; I don't know; I didn't check. Another recent sweep was made to delete old maintainers. If your reason for wanting to see the modification date is that you want to know if the port is current or if it works, then I'm saying that it would be a poor indicator. If you have another reason for wanting to see the last modified date, let us know. But whatever the reason, you could also get at that information by using, for example:

ls -l `port file THE_PORT_NAME`

[jmpp@…]

Milestone Needs developer review deleted

[nox@…]

just use the command given by Ryan, or port cat <portname> | head -n 1