port activate ignores multiple installed versions and variants of inactive dependents

[Joshua Root]

On 2014-12-12 06:51 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
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> On Dec 10, 2014, at 12:19 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
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>> On Dec 9, 2014, at 1:21 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
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>>> Is this behavior by design?
>>>
>>> $ sudo port -q deactivate sqlgrey postfix
>>> --->  Deactivating sqlgrey @1.8.0-rc2_2+mysql+perl5_20
>>> --->  Deactivating postfix @2.11.3_0
>>> $ sudo port -q activate sqlgrey postfix
>>> --->  Computing dependencies for sqlgrey
>>> --->  Dependencies to be installed: postfix
>>> --->  Activating postfix @2.11.3_0
>>> --->  Activating sqlgrey @1.8.0-rc2_2+mysql+perl5_20
>>> --->  The following versions of postfix are currently installed:
>>> --->      postfix @2.11.2_0
>>> --->      postfix @2.11.3_0 (active)
>>> --->      postfix @2.11.3_0+dovecot_sasl+mariadb
>>> Error: port activate failed: Registry error: Please specify the full version as recorded in the port registry.
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>> It looks expected, in so far as you have multiple versions of postfix installed, asked MacPorts to activate postfix, and did not specify which one you wanted to activate.
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> Right, with sqlgrey and multiple postfix versions installed and inactive why does port not ask me which postfix version to activate when activating sqlgrey?
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> If "port activate postfix" requires me to specify a version then why wouldn't activation via dependency also ask?

Same reason 'port install sqlgrey' doesn't ask which version of postfix
to activate.

- Josh