port info --index does not work with 'current' pseudo-port

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I want to get the list of all port maintainers. That should be doable like this:

port -q info --index --maintainer all | sed s/,//g | xargs -n 1 echo | sort | uniq

However, that doesn't work because

port -q info --index --maintainer all

prints the error message

Warning: port info --index does not work with 'current' pseudo-port

4400 times. (That's how many ports we have right now.)

Why this error message? I didn't ask for the 'current' pseudo-port; I asked for the 'all' pseudo-port.

I was able to get the list of all maintainers using

port echo all | xargs port -q info --index --maintainer | sed s/,//g | xargs -n 1 echo | sort | uniq

but this is not optimal; it took 9 minutes to run. All the information is in the PortIndex; it should just be able to open the single file, parse the 8800 lines to find all the maintainers, and spit them out, and it shouldn't take that long to do it.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

I wrote a PHP script to list all the maintainers. It runs in under 2 seconds.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

print list of all port maintainers

[lperry (Perry Lee)]

Disclaimer: This is my first time looking at proc foreachport and proc action_info so I may be (completely) wrong ;).

The error message may be a little misleading; it's not returned because the 'current' pseudo-port is asked for, but because portinfo is unset.

The other pseudo-ports, such as installed, work because they pass a portlist that contains portspecs with *no* porturl set ($portspec(url) == ""). When no porturl is set, an if block in action_info is executed that uses mportsearch to return portinfo, an array that contains the associated information in PortIndex.

The all pseudo-port uses the proc get_all_ports to populate portlist with portspecs that contain a url key. As a result, the if block is never executed, and information from the PortIndex is not read.

[lperry (Perry Lee)]

I removed the if statement checking if porturl eq "" and tested the command you listed:

port -q info --index --maintainer all

It now appears to work, although I don't think this is the permanent fix we want.

[lperry (Perry Lee)]

`port -q info --index --maintainer all' now works, but it's still slow (r43519). Should the PortIndex only be accessed through mportsearch, or are there other methods that can be used that may be faster?

[tobypeterson]

Milestone MacPorts base bugs deleted

[jmroot (Joshua Root)]

r78621