Your MacPorts ports need some love: the "cd" command is going away

James Berry jberry at macports.org
Mon Nov 12 15:17:46 PST 2007


Hi Ernie,

On Nov 12, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Ernest Prabhakar wrote:

> Hi Ryan,
>
> Apology for a stupid question, but I can't get your script to run:
>
> On Nov 12, 2007, at 1:37 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> To see everywhere in your ports where the "cd" command is currently  
>> being used, you can use a command like this in the Terminal  
>> (replacing "EMAIL" with your maintainer email address (to which  
>> this email was sent)):
>>
>> port file maintainer:EMAIL \
>> | xargs grep "[[:space:]]cd[[:space:]]" \
>> | grep -v "system[[:space:]]"
>
>
> Am I doing something wrong? This is on Leopard with a fresh install  
> of 1.5.0
>
>
> -enp
>
> ernest$ port file maintainer:drernie at macosforge.org
>
> Can't map the URL 'file://.' to a port description file ("Could not  
> find Portfile in /Users/ernest").
> Please verify that the directory and portfile syntax are correct.
> To use the current port, you must be in a port's directory.
> (you might also see this message if a pseudo-port such as
> outdated or installed expands to no ports).
> Error: Port  not found

It looks to me like there are no ports for which you are listed as  
maintainer. (Am I wrong?) Therefore, you get this result, which isn't,  
admittedly, the most beautiful thing in the world.

James


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