"port info boost" should give more clues about whereabouts in svn

[dave@…]

I'm trying to find out how to install a back rev of boost. I gather from

wiki:howto/InstallingOlderPort

that I have to go to

browser:trunk/dports

and find the boost port, then craft an svn command to get the old version, something like:

svn co -r 30810 http://svn.macports.org/repository/macports/trunk/dports/lang/tcl

But where exactly is boost? It's not at the top level? No. Is it under devel? No. I used the search box, and that was not helpful.

I did this:

Z% sudo /opt/local/bin/port info boost           
boost @1.53.0, Revision 1 (devel)
Variants:             debug, [+]no_single, [+]no_static, openmpi, python25, python26, [+]python27, python31, python32, python33, regex_match_extra, universal

Description:          Boost provides free portable peer-reviewed C++ libraries. The emphasis is on portable libraries which work well with the C++ Standard Library.
Homepage:             http://www.boost.org

Library Dependencies: zlib, expat, bzip2, libiconv, icu, python27
Platforms:            darwin
License:              Boost-1
Maintainers:          adfernandes@macports.org

but there is nothing there to help me find the subfolder in the svn repository that contains boost.

I'm stumped.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

boost is in the devel category, as port info boost says. You can also see the local path to the port directory with the command port dir boost; you can then extrapolate from that what the path in the repository would be.

We don't want to put information into the port info output about where the port is in Subversion, but we should enhance wiki:howto/InstallingOlderPort if it's unclear. Anyone with a Trac account may edit the wiki.