Issues with upgrading lang/python27

Sven Gaerner sgaerner at gmx.net
Sun Aug 31 03:29:17 PDT 2014


On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 02:59:59PM +1100, Romick wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 10:37:54PM +0200, Sven Gaerner wrote:
> > I pulled the latest updates from the dports repository and run
> > portmaster to upgrade the ports.
> > 
> > Unfortunately building python27 failed to build. I tried a clean build,
> > checked the patches, but everything looks good - as far as I can see.
> > 
> 
> Try this:
> 
> 0) update
> cd /usr/dports
> git pull
> 
> 1) Remove all pythons (python27-2.7.8, python-2.7_1,2, python2-2_2 ...
> all)
> for example:
> pkg delete -f python27-2.7.8 
> 
> 2) Install new python
> cd /usr/dports/lang/python27
> make reinstall
> 
> 3) Try portmaster again

I did not think about removing python with the option force. And because
a lot of ports depend on python I did not remove python without that
option.

But your suggestions helped to solve the build problem. I could
reinstall python and started an upgrade of the others ports.

Thanks for your help.

Sven



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