inconsistent error mesgs (1.7)

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Mon Dec 29 13:55:28 PST 2008


William Davis wrote:
> Perhaps the  unexpanded pseudo-port name ought to appear in the  
> message, eg:
> No {pseudo-list} ports found

You can specify multiple pseudo-ports together with real ports and even
use logical statements with and/or/not.

For example:
  sudo port upgrade outdated and not \( vim bash \)
    => This would upgrade all outdated ports except vim and bash.

The error message you are seeing only appears if expanding *all* of the
given port arguments returns an empty set. By default, lists without
operator are assumed to be concatenated by the 'or' operation.

Maybe the error message should be:
  $ sudo port upgrade {portlist}
  Error: '{portlist}' did not match any ports

That should fit all needs, right?

Rainer


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