Perhaps 'port echo inactive' is what you are looking for? >From the manpage: " echo Writes to stdout the arguments passed to port. This follows the expansion of pseudo-portnames, portname glob patterns, pseudo-portname selectors and the evaluation of port expressions. echo may be used to determine the exact set of ports to which a given string of arguments will expand, without performing any further operations on them. For example:
list If no argument is given, display a list of the latest version of all available ports. If portname(s) are given as arguments, display a list of the latest version of each port. " note especially that list shows "the latest version of each port' Hope that helps! Eric On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Marko Käning <mk-li...@email.de> wrote: >> If there is a bug, it's that the commands are somewhat confusing. > Yep, they are. > >> the output of 'port list inactive' is correct (although not very useful) if >> you understand the port command syntax. > You can say that again: "not very useful"! :) > Where is the point to list the inactive versions using said command and you > still get the installed version?! > > I do NOT understand why the port command does it this way. It renders this > command useless if you want to get a list of inactive installs. > But well, I guess one simply has to accept and use the workaround. :) > _______________________________________________ > macports-users mailing list > macports-users@lists.macosforge.org > http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users > -- Eric A. Borisch ebori...@ieee.org Howard Roark laughed. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-users