Opened 16 years ago

Closed 15 years ago

#19138 closed enhancement (fixed)

RFE: More verbose `port outdated` when epoch is incremented but version and revision are left unchanged

Reported by: lperry (Perry Lee) Owned by: macports-tickets@…
Priority: Normal Milestone: MacPorts 1.9.0
Component: base Version: 1.7.0
Keywords: Cc:
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Description

port outdated's output can be a little confusing when the epoch is incremented but the version and revision are kept the same. For example:

openssl                        0.9.8k_0 < 0.9.8k_0

I've attached a patch that (1) sets the flag field and (2) additionally displays the epochs when the above situation occurs. For example:

foobar                         0.1_0_0 < 0.1_0_5        E

Attachments (1)

patch-port.tcl.diff (1.1 KB) - added by lperry (Perry Lee) 16 years ago.
Updated on 04/09

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Change History (5)

comment:1 Changed 16 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

I don't like displaying the epoch on the right, it makes it look less significant than the revision.

comment:2 Changed 16 years ago by lperry (Perry Lee)

That's a good point; though, as another thought, should the epoch even be displayed?

From my perspective, users are only concerned with the upstream version; in the case that a port's version/revision is kept the same or decremented, I think it would be enough to just set the flag to E.

I've updated the patch to just set the flag to E whenever the epoch is incremented - not only when the installed_version matches the latest_version. For example, 0.1_0 < 0.0_0 E .

Changed 16 years ago by lperry (Perry Lee)

Attachment: patch-port.tcl.diff added

Updated on 04/09

comment:3 Changed 16 years ago by raimue (Rainer Müller)

I like the "E" flag. The actual epoch values don't matter, it is only important to understand why a downgrade is considered outdated.

comment:4 Changed 15 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Milestone: MacPorts FutureMacPorts 1.9.0
Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed
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