Opened 10 years ago

Closed 10 years ago

#44946 closed enhancement (invalid)

Add method of showing installed & available versions of outdated ports at once

Reported by: macports@… Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: base Version: 2.3.1
Keywords: Cc: ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)
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Description (last modified by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt))

# port echo outdated
# port installed outdated
# port list outdated

the first two show me the current installed versions of my outdated ports, the third shows me the available version that i could install

if the set of outdated ports is short, it's easy to run both commands and compare, but its very hard to see what changes will actually happen with a long list

i suspect there may be issues changing the default output format of either command (?) but would it be possible to add a way of optionally seeing both installed + available versions listed side by side?

e.g. by having the installed or available ports shown in verbose mode for one/more of these commands (e.g. port -v list outdated), or by adding an option to one of the commands to show both installed + available versions (e.g. port list -v outdated)

i've looked for other ways of 'joining' this information, and the closest i can find is port -y upgrade outdated, which is about 3x the output and much harder for human-parsing...

this may also (slightly) overlap with #26028, at least in terms of user-interest if not functionality

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Cc: ryandesign@… added
Description: modified (diff)
Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed

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