py-awscli2 2.17.27: Help commands do not work

[graywolf-s1]

When I try to run any help command, it errors out.

/ $ command -v aws
/opt/local/bin/aws
/ $ aws --version
aws-cli/2.17.27 Python/3.11.9 Darwin/23.6.0 source/arm64
/ $ aws s3 help

list index out of range
/ $ aws ssm help

list index out of range

[dgilman (David Gilman)]

I am unable to reproduce this locally. Can you try these steps to reproduce:

• does normal aws usage work?
• does PAGER=cat aws s3 help work?
• what's the log output of PAGER=cat aws s3 help --debug
• the above should mention mandoc or groff under the awscli.help logger, which one is on your path, what version is it, and did you get it from the system or from MacPorts?

[graywolf-s1]

Thanks for the suggestions, PAGER=cat does indeed work, after some more digging based on that this turned out to be an upstream issue (now reported). Therefore this can be closed I think, there is nothing to do in macports (I will patch the Portfile in my tree until upstream does something). I would close this, but did not figure out how.

[dgilman (David Gilman)]

I can include your patch in the next MacPorts update for the package and that PR can auto close this ticket.

[graywolf-s1]

Patch fixing the issues

[graywolf-s1]

I have attached commit I applied to my local tree as a fix to the issue. I suggested the same fix to the upstream ​https://github.com/aws/aws-cli/issues/8891#issuecomment-2324652082 .

[graywolf-s1]

Uh, it probably is missing a revision bump.

[dgilman (David Gilman)]

I can sense your frustration over in the AWS issue tracker. The awscli team moves very slowly. For example, they haven't signed off on Python 3.12 support yet. I think it's just internal prioritization, they've been lacking in manpower and don't have people to keep awscli clean.

I will put your patch in macports shortly.

[dgilman (David Gilman)]

In a956e0c4f25c2600db377cc0430ebb7ab0f076d5/macports-ports (master):

py-awscli2: update to 2.17.46

Closes: #70601

[graywolf-s1]

Thank you :)