An update on 'port reclaim' and 'port doctor'

[Kyle Sammons]

Hey Frank,

That is indeed a nasty bug! Would you mind telling me if you're on the
latest version from trunk (i.e. not my branch)? We ran into a similar issue
in the past and I thought we fixed it in a patch awhile back.

Thanks for the catch,
-Kyle


On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Frank Schima <mf2k at macports.org> wrote:

> Hi again,
>
>
> I just discovered a nasty bug in port reclaim:
>
> ...
> Found distfile: .bash_history
> Removing distfile: .bash_history
> Found distfile: .bash_profile
> Removing distfile: .bash_profile
> Found distfile: .DS_Store
> Removing distfile: .DS_Store
> ...
>
> Yes, it deleted my ~/.bash_profile!! Hopefully the other files in my home
> directory that it deleted weren’t too important.
>
>
> -Frank
>
> On Aug 29, 2014, at 12:39 PM, Kyle Sammons <ksammons at macports.org> wrote:
>
> Hey everyone,
>
> I'm Kyle, and I was the one working on the GSoC project, "Project Clean Up
> Stuff", which is now finished. During the project I've added two new
> commands to port, "port reclaim" and "port doctor" (though we may be
> changing 'doctor' to something else in the near future), both of which are
> now merged into the trunk and should (hopefully) be fully operational. I
> plan on sticking around until I go back to school (September 20th), in
> order to fix some bugs that might be in my code, or to answers some
> questions people have about it. My plans passed that aren't too clear at
> the moment, but hopefully they allow me to still stick around.
>
> Anyways, here's a description of the two new commands:
>
> port reclaim - Removes all unneeded distfiles currently on the system, and
> offers to uninstall all inactive applications, if the user desires.
>
> port doctor - Checks for common issues on the users system, and if found,
> suggests ways to fix the problem. Doctor accepts one flag (--quiet) which
> only shows warnings/errors rather than showing the status of each check.
>  There is also a configuration file for doctor located in,
> "/opt/local/var/macports/port_doctor.ini", which allows the user to make
> changes to certain ways doctor operates, though currently the config file
> isn't used as much as it could be.
>
> If you guys have any more questions, or would like to make changes to the
> code, or would like for me to make changes to the code, feel free to email
> me!
>
> Thanks,
> Kyle
>
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