port activate ignores multiple installed versions and variants of inactive dependents

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

On Dec 11, 2014, at 12:41 PM, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> On 2014-12-12 06:51 , Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>> 
>> On Dec 10, 2014, at 12:19 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Dec 9, 2014, at 1:21 PM, Bradley Giesbrecht wrote:
>>> 
>>>> 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.
>>> 
>>> 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.
>> 
>> Right, with sqlgrey and multiple postfix versions installed and inactive why does port not ask me which postfix version to activate when activating sqlgrey?
>> 
>> 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

Ok, and the reason is?

Regards,
Bradley Giesbrecht (pixilla)

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