On 15 Oct 2009, at 23:31, Jeremy Lavergne wrote:
I have my own little shell script that does (amongst other things)
sudo port -v selfupdate
sudo port outdated
#sudo port upgrade outdated
#sudo port uninstall -f inactive
echo All Done
The commented lines are because a few versions of Macports ago, if
you tried
sudo port upgrade outdated
and "outdated" was nothing, ie nothing needed upgrading, then there
was a very confusing error message.
But I've just tried it in 1.8.1 and although it could be slightly
better it's not as bad as it once was.
iMac:~ $ sudo port upgrade outdated
Error: No ports matched the given expression
"There are no upgrades available in MacPorts for your installed
ports."
is perhaps a clearer message for users in this case.
This happens because the expansion of commands is done right to
left. We don't know that we're upgrading until after we've tried to
match "outdated."
As I say, it's better now than the scenario a few versions back (1.7)
Two previous threads on that were from late December 2008
inconsistent error mesgs (1.7)
Error message when nothing to upgrade?
At that time the error printed was
Error: No ports found
But it's still true that although
Error: No ports matched the given expression
is *technically* correct, it's still not entirely user friendly for
the masses.
Mark
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