Supporting 'port livecheck installed'

Chris Jones jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk
Sat Aug 31 17:57:52 UTC 2019


It is intentional that the version specific py ports have livecheck none. The idea is you don’t need every one of the versions performing the check, only the non versioned port.

> On 31 Aug 2019, at 5:50 pm, Blair Zajac <blair at orcaware.com> wrote:
> 
> I care about such ports, e.g. py37-tensorflow and py37-virtualenv, so I would have that in requested. So that appears to not directly solve the issue.
> 
>> On Aug 31, 2019, at 9:16 AM, Jeremy Lavergne <jeremy at lavergne.me> wrote:
>> 
>> As an alternative or workaround, would narrowing to `port livecheck requested` be useful for you?
>> 
>> 
>>> On 8/31/19 11:58 AM, Blair Zajac wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>> It appears a number of ports, particularly py-* ports, use “livecheck.type none”. I find running ‘port livecheck installed’ a handy way to see if any of the ports I care about have an update, however, this doesn’t work for the py-* ones.
>>> Can something be changed to support this? Would the livecheck code need to specially handle the port name when ${name} is a py??-* variant?
>>> Blair
>> 
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