port issues (was Re: x264transcode failing in mkvtoonix)

[Arno Hautala]

On 2012-01-12, Craig Treleaven <ctreleaven at cogeco.ca> wrote:
>
> BTW, would there be any possibility of an enhancement to MacPorts to report
> known issues with a port and its dependants?  Ie generate the list of
> dependencies for a port and query the trac database for any open tickets.
> aka
>
>>port issues mkvtoonix
>  boost - #32558 (mkvtoolnix: error: 'boost::BOOST_FOREACH' has not been
> declared)

That sounds like it'd be really useful.

Currently, you can do this manually by running "port rdeps mkvtoolnix"
and then running a query on trac for each :
https://trac.macports.org/report/16?PORT=boost
or
http://trac.macports.org/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&port=%7Eboost&summary=%7E&order=priority

Being able to combine these in port would be a nice shortcut.
You should open a feature request on trac for this.

It also might make a good Google Summer of Code project.

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