How to list which revisions are available for activation?

[Bradley Giesbrecht]

port info dbus

On May 20, 2009, at 9:27 PM, Jim DeLaHunt wrote:

> Scott:
>
> At 9:12 PM -0700 5/20/09, Scott Haneda wrote:
>> I think you want to use port list and/or port list installed.
>
> Thank you for the suggestion. Unfortunately, "port list" doesn't  
> seem to tell me what I want to know.
>
> % port list dbus
> dbus                           @1.2.12         devel/dbus
>
> I want to find out that I have dbus @1.2.12_4 (active), and  
> @1.2.12_5 (present but inactive).  "Port list" doesn't appear to  
> tell me that. Am I overlooking something?
>     --Jim
>
>> -- Scott
>> Iphone says hello.
>>
>> 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  However, "port outdated" tells me  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 % port outdated dbus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 The following installed ports are outdated: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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