[MacPorts] #13673: port info --index does not work with 'current' pseudo-port

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#13673: port info --index does not work with 'current' pseudo-port
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 Reporter:  ryandesign at macports.org  |       Owner:  macports-tickets at lists.macosforge.org
     Type:  defect                   |      Status:  new                                  
 Priority:  Normal                   |   Milestone:  MacPorts base bugs                   
Component:  base                     |     Version:  1.7.0                                
 Keywords:                           |  
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 I want to get the list of all port maintainers. That should be doable like
 this:

 {{{
 port -q info --index --maintainer all | sed s/,//g | xargs -n 1 echo |
 sort | uniq
 }}}

 However, that doesn't work because

 {{{
 port -q info --index --maintainer all
 }}}

 prints the error message

 {{{
 Warning: port info --index does not work with 'current' pseudo-port
 }}}

 4400 times. (That's how many ports we have right now.)

 Why this error message? I didn't ask for the 'current' pseudo-port; I
 asked for the 'all' pseudo-port.

 I was able to get the list of all maintainers using

 {{{
 port echo all | xargs port -q info --index --maintainer | sed s/,//g |
 xargs -n 1 echo | sort | uniq
 }}}

 but this is not optimal; it took 9 minutes to run. All the information is
 in the PortIndex; it should just be able to open the single file, parse
 the 8800 lines to find all the maintainers, and spit them out, and it
 shouldn't take that long to do it.

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Ticket URL: <http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/13673>
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