duplicate listing of ports by `port list installed'

[Frank Schima]

On Jun 19, 2013, at 8:20 AM, j. van den hoff <veedeehjay at googlemail.com> wrote:

>> 3.
>>> is there a way to get rid of the duplicates?
>>> 
>> 
>> sudo port uninstall inactive
>> 
> 
> yes, obvious in retrospect... thanks again.
> 
> basically, my error was to use `port list installed' instead
> of `port installed'. the confusing thing is that `port list installed'
> shows something like this:
> 
> 
> ...
> cmake                          @2.8.10.2       devel/cmake
> cmake                          @2.8.10.2       devel/cmake
> ...
> 
> `list' (after reading the manpage again it's clear...) always reports
> the latest version, so in combination with the pseudo-portname "installed" the
> above output resulted, while `port installed' yields.
> 
> cmake @2.8.10_1
> cmake @2.8.10.2_0 (active)
> 
> which is the actually relevant information. one modest proposal for
> a fix would be that `port list portname(s)' does something like `uniq(1)'
> on its input list of portnames before reporting (Tcl sure has something like `uniq' included,
> I presume).

File an enhancement ticket in Trac [1] if you want this. Even better would be to supply a patch. 


Cheers!
Frank

[1] <https://trac.macports.org/newticket>