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

[Kyle Sammons]

Hey Frank,

Thanks for the answer! A patch that should fix your issue was released
today (https://trac.macports.org/changeset/125007).

Thanks again,
Kyle


On Tue, Sep 2, 2014 at 12:30 PM, Frank Schima <mf2k at macports.org> wrote:

> Hi Kyle,
>
>
> Apologies for the delay. I had just run svn update on trunk/base (and
> rebuilt port) when I ran that. So it was the latest at the time.
>
>
> Cheers!
> Frank
>
> On Aug 31, 2014, at 4:12 PM, Kyle Sammons <goodkingkyle at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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