port issues

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 12, 2012, at 09:31, Arno Hautala wrote:

> 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.

Let's take a look at this.

Here is the recursive list of dependencies of mkvtoolnix:

$ port rdeps mkvtoolnix
The following ports are dependencies of mkvtoolnix @5.0.1_0:
  ruby
    libiconv
      gperf
    readline
      ncurses
        ncursesw
    openssl
      zlib
    gdbm
      gettext
        expat
  boost
    bzip2
    icu
  file
  flac
    libogg
  libvorbis
    pkgconfig
      glib2
        xz
        libffi
        perl5
          perl5.12
  lzo2
  pcre
    libedit

Here is a script that constructs and opens a Trac search page to find issues filed against a port (or ports) and optionally any of its recursive dependencies, sorted in descending ticket number order (i.e. newest first):

https://trac.macports.org/browser/users/ryandesign/scripts/portissues

Running this script as follows:

portissues --deps mkvtoolnix

The script opens this URL:

https://trac.macports.org/report/16?sort=ticket&asc=0&PORT=(%5E%7C%20%7C,)(mkvtoolnix%7Cruby%7Clibiconv%7Cgperf%7Creadline%7Cncurses%7Cncursesw%7Copenssl%7Czlib%7Cgdbm%7Cgettext%7Cexpat%7Cboost%7Cbzip2%7Cicu%7Cfile%7Cflac%7Clibogg%7Clibvorbis%7Cpkgconfig%7Cglib2%7Cxz%7Clibffi%7Cperl5%7Cperl5.12%7Clzo2%7Cpcre%7Clibedit)($%7C%20%7C,)

There are 58 tickets. Would seeing this list have been helpful? I would argue that there are a lot of tickets in that list that are not relevant to the issue being experienced -- lots of text to sift through before you find what you're looking for.