portupgrade not finding ports?

[James Harrison]

On Dec 30, 2009, at 10:23 PM 12/30/09, James Harrison wrote:

> 
> On Dec 30, 2009, at 9:48 AM 12/30/09, Michael R. Wayne wrote:
> 
>> 
>> I've seen this a few times, just curious why it's failing on just
>> the port name?  Didn't seem worth a PR...
>> 
>> /\/\ \/\/
>> 
>> 380> sudo portinstall --fetch-only --upward-recursive apache22
>> ** No such package or port: apache22
>> 
>> 381> sudo portinstall --fetch-only --upward-recursive www/apache22
>> [Gathering depends for www/apache22 ..................... done]
>> 
>> (works)
> 
> I'm completely new to looking at portupgrade, so don't take my word for anything.
> 
> That said, I took a look into this and I saw that  the method generating the error begins with:
> 
> if $portsdb.exist?(arg)
> 
> So I looked around and found out what class portsdb is an instance of, then read the exist? method:
> 
>  def exist?(port, quick = false)
>    return if %r"^[^/]+/[^/]+$" !~ port
> 
>    dir = portdir(port)
> 
>    return false if not File.file?(File.join(dir, 'Makefile'))
> 
>    return true if quick
> 
>    make_var('PKGNAME', dir) || false
>  end
> 
> So, either the regex isn't matching (my regexfu is weak, so I'm working on parsing the regex in my head, which is slow going), or the make_var method is failing, or there's no Makefile for apache22.
> 
> A quick look in www/apache22 reveals that the Makefile exists happily, so that's not the issue.
> 
> That's what I've discovered so far.
> 
> James


Re-reading the above, it looks like it shouldn't be the regex that's returning false, as it has no boolean associated with its return. Leaving the make_var method. Time for more researchings...