How to list which revisions are available for activation?

Scott Haneda talklists at newgeo.com
Wed May 20 21:12:45 PDT 2009


I think you want to use port list and/or port list installed.

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On May 20, 2009, at 8:55 PM, Jim DeLaHunt <from.macports at jdlh.com>  
wrote:

> This may be a stupid question, but I can't find the answer in the  
> help file.
>
> How can I find out which revisions of a particular port are present  
> on my system?
>
> Consider the following.  "port info" tells me which is the highest  
> revision loaded on my system.  However, "port outdated" tells me  
> that what is active is a slightly older revision.  What I want is a  
> command which will tell me, "you have version a.b.c_d and version  
> m.n.o_p, and it's version a.b.c_d which is activated".
>
> % port outdated dbus
> The following installed ports are outdated:
> dbus                           1.2.12_4 < 1.2.12_5
> % port info dbus
> dbus @1.2.12, Revision 5 (devel)
> Variants:    darwin_7, no_root, no_startupitem, test, universal
>
> A message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one  
> another.
> Homepage:    http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus
>
> Build Dependencies:   pkgconfig, autoconf, automake, libtool
> Library Dependencies: expat
> Platforms:            darwin
> Maintainers:          mcalhoun at macports.org  
> openmaintainer at macports.org
>
> Thanks in advance,
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