"port outdated" broken in trunk

[James Berry]

On Oct 11, 2007, at 10:05 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:

>
> On Oct 5, 2007, at 10:15, Kevin Ballard wrote:
>
>> On Oct 5, 2007, at 11:06 AM, Chris Pickel wrote:
>>
>>> On 05 Oct, 2007, at 10:53, Kevin Ballard wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Oct 5, 2007, at 5:01 AM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> In trunk @29497 "port outdated" returns the list of outdated  
>>>>> ports:
>>>>> ...
>>>>> However in trunk @29502 "port outdated" finds nothing:
>>>>> ...
>>>>> But is this change in behavior intentional?
>>>>>
>>>>> There were a couple commits made on trunk between r29497 and  
>>>>> r29502 but they seemed to be related and were all made by  
>>>>> eridius so that's as far as I felt like narrowing it down.
>>>>
>>>> Those two commits have nothing to do with this. I'm as mystified  
>>>> by this as you are.
>>>
>>> I believe this is due to the API change in r29191 that changed  
>>> from global_option_isset to macports::global_option_isset. Note  
>>> that port.tcl:2349, which is responsible for setting  
>>> ports_no_args, was unchanged.
>>>
>>> I'm not sure what the appropriate API for *setting* such values  
>>> is, but I'm looking into it and should hopefully be able to commit  
>>> a fix soon. Anyone with more info is welcome to contact me on irc.
>>
>> Ah hah. It seems port(1) is using the global options array to hold  
>> its own private options as well. There are two possible solutions.  
>> The first is to make port(1) stop using  
>> macports::global_option_isset and make it just check the  
>> global_options array directly. The second is to make port(1) use a  
>> separate array for its private options and check that directly.
>
> Any progress on this?
>
> "port installed" is broken too, by the way (shows nothing  
> installed). "port installed installed" works, though.
>
> It looks like a bug has already been submitted for this issue:
>
> http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/12837

I think this is Kevin's to fix, since his checkin broke it? A short  
term workaround is probably to use  "port installed all" or "port  
outdated all"?

James