"Variants" action broken

[scott_karana@…]

The variants action doesn't work as it should:

$ port variants ocaml perl
ocaml has the variants:
        labltk
No port asdasd found.
asdasd has the variants:
        labltk

You'd expect that asdasd, which is not a real port, wouldn't show labltk as a variant. Self explanatory.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Confirmed this incorrect behavior in 1.3.2.

[ehainry@…]

There is no perl port in macports. With your command, I get perl instead of asdasd (which is not too surprising). However, the bug is real:

% port variants 4th
4th has no variants
% port variants ocaml 4th
ocaml has the variants:
        labltk
4th has the variants:
        labltk

I do not think variants (as deps) is supposed to be used with more than one portname.

[macports@…]

Why not? It just has two bugs:

1. The variant list isn't reset for invariant ports.
2. Nonexistent ports are also treated as invariant.

[gwhitney@…]

This appears to be fixed already (as of 1.4.3, anyway):

$ port variants ocaml perl
ocaml has the variants:
        universal
        labltk
No port perl found.
perl has no variants
$ port variants ocaml expat
ocaml has the variants:
        universal
        labltk
expat has the variants:
        universal
        no_static

I recommend closing this ticket as "FIXED".

[markd@…]

Confirmed this is fixed.