Opened 12 years ago

Last modified 11 years ago

#33820 new enhancement

base: add ui_msg to output outdated ports during selfupdate

Reported by: seanfarley (Sean Farley) Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: base Version: 2.0.4
Keywords: haspatch Cc: cooljeanius (Eric Gallager), raimue (Rainer Müller)
Port:

Description

This is a small tweak to macports base that will output the outdated ports after showing the message:

"The ports tree has been updated. To upgrade your installed ports, you should run

port upgrade outdated"

Attachments (1)

base-outdated.patch (906 bytes) - added by seanfarley (Sean Farley) 12 years ago.

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Change History (6)

Changed 12 years ago by seanfarley (Sean Farley)

Attachment: base-outdated.patch added

comment:1 Changed 12 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Keywords: haspatch added

comment:2 Changed 11 years ago by cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)

Cc: egall@… added

Cc Me!

comment:3 Changed 11 years ago by cooljeanius (Eric Gallager)

This should probably only be printed when the verbosity level is at least the -v flag or higher.

comment:4 Changed 11 years ago by raimue (Rainer Müller)

Cc: raimue@… added

In my opinion, I don't think it's necessary to list outdated ports on selfupdate.

Anyway, on technical details, using exec is not the right choice here. The package macports1.0 is meant as a library to be used by different clients, most notable port/port.tcl and the MacPorts.framework for GUI applications. We cannot always expect port to be in PATH for GUI applications, so at least it would have to be ${prefix}/bin/port. It would make more sense to add such a message within the port cli client, as a GUI client has other options to present outdated ports than plain text messages. Additionally, the behavior and output from selfupdate and sync should be consistent.

comment:5 in reply to:  4 Changed 11 years ago by seanfarley (Sean Farley)

Replying to raimue@…:

In my opinion, I don't think it's necessary to list outdated ports on self update.

I dunno; I could see it either way. On one hand, it's nice to have a list of outdated ports after running port sync or port selfupdate.

Anyway, on technical details, using exec is not the right choice here. The package macports1.0 is meant as a library to be used by different clients, most notable port/port.tcl and the MacPorts.framework for GUI applications. We cannot always expect port to be in PATH for GUI applications, so at least it would have to be ${prefix}/bin/port. It would make more sense to add such a message within the port cli client, as a GUI client has other options to present outdated ports than plain text messages. Additionally, the behavior and output from selfupdate and sync should be consistent.

Very true; this patch was mostly meant as a proof-of-concept.

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