odd port list installed output

[James Berry]

On Mar 6, 2008, at 5:02 AM, skip at pobox.com wrote:

> In my previous email I wrote:
>
>    If I decide to reinstall, is there some way I can record what  
> ports I
>    currently have installed then, after the basic install, reinstall  
> those
>    ports with one command?
>
> So port list installed seems to spit out something almost like what  
> I need,
> but I noticed that I seem to have two copies of several ports  
> installed.  It
> looks like fftw-3, oss-uuid, python24 and python25 are all installed  
> twice:

You'll get more joy, I believe, from:

	port installed

Note that "port list installed" will "list" each port that is  
installed. The list command simply tells you the latest version of the  
particular port. So that combination is not particularly useful. A  
more useful combination might be "port echo installed", which will  
provide much the same information as "port installed".

In either case, you're seeing multiple entries for some ports because  
you have installed, but inactive, versions of those ports. To find  
only the active versions, you might try:

	port echo active

Combine that with a pipe through cut and you'd have a list of all  
ports that are currently active. You could save that list away and  
then later pass the list to "port install" when you want to reinstall.  
Note that this would lose any particular variants you have installed.

	port echo active | cut -d ' ' -f 1

Hmm. I think the output of "port echo active" without the cut, would  
conveniently give you exactly what you need to replicate your setup  
_with_ variants. Almost as if I designed it that way! The only issue  
might be if the specified versions were no longer available.

James




>
>
>    % port list installed
>    bison                          @2.3            devel/bison
>    bzip2                          @1.0.4          archivers/bzip2
>    db44                           @4.4.20         databases/db44
>    expat                          @2.0.1          textproc/expat
>    fftw-3                         @3.1.2          math/fftw-3
>    fftw-3                         @3.1.2          math/fftw-3
>    freetype                       @2.3.5          print/freetype
>    g95                            @0.90           lang/g95
>    gdbm                           @1.8.3          databases/gdbm
>    gettext                        @0.17           devel/gettext
>    jasper                         @1.701.0        graphics/jasper
>    jpeg                           @6b             graphics/jpeg
>    libiconv                       @1.12           textproc/libiconv
>    libpng                         @1.2.25         graphics/libpng
>    libxml2                        @2.6.31         textproc/libxml2
>    libxslt                        @1.1.22         textproc/libxslt
>    m4                             @1.4.10         devel/m4
>    mercurial                      @0.9.5          devel/mercurial
>    ncurses                        @5.6            devel/ncurses
>    ncursesw                       @5.6            devel/ncursesw
>    netpbm                         @10.26.50       graphics/netpbm
>    openssl                        @0.9.8g         devel/openssl
>    ossp-uuid                      @1.6.0          devel/ossp-uuid
>    ossp-uuid                      @1.6.0          devel/ossp-uuid
>    postgresql83                   @8.3.0          databases/ 
> postgresql83
>    py25-dateutil                  @1.4            python/py25-dateutil
>    py25-tz                        @2007k          python/py25-tz
>    python24                       @2.4.4          lang/python24
>    python24                       @2.4.4          lang/python24
>    python25                       @2.5.2          lang/python25
>    python25                       @2.5.2          lang/python25
>    readline                       @5.2.007        devel/readline
>    tiff                           @3.8.2          graphics/tiff
>    unzip                          @5.52           archivers/unzip
>    wget                           @1.11           net/wget
>    zlib                           @1.2.3          archivers/zlib
>
> What's up with that?  I suppose I should be able to do something  
> like this:
>
>    port list installed | awk '{print $1}' > currentports
>    sudo rm -rf /opt/local
>    sudo port install $(cat currentports)
>
> but isn't there some other directory I need to remove?  Some sort of
> MacPorts frameworks directory?
>
> -- 
> Skip Montanaro - skip at pobox.com - http://www.webfast.com/~skip/
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