port info --index does not work with 'current' pseudo-port

[ryandesign@…]

I want to get the list of all port maintainers. That should be doable like this:

port -q info --index --maintainer all | sed s/,//g | xargs -n 1 echo | sort | uniq

However, that doesn't work because

port -q info --index --maintainer all

prints the error message

Warning: port info --index does not work with 'current' pseudo-port

4400 times. (That's how many ports we have right now.)

Why this error message? I didn't ask for the 'current' pseudo-port; I asked for the 'all' pseudo-port.

I was able to get the list of all maintainers using

port echo all | xargs port -q info --index --maintainer | sed s/,//g | xargs -n 1 echo | sort | uniq

but this is not optimal; it took 9 minutes to run. All the information is in the PortIndex; it should just be able to open the single file, parse the 8800 lines to find all the maintainers, and spit them out, and it shouldn't take that long to do it.

[ryandesign@…]

I wrote a PHP script to list all the maintainers. It runs in under 2 seconds.

[ryandesign@…]

print list of all port maintainers