Issues with upgrading lang/python27

Sven Gaerner sgaerner at gmx.net
Sun Aug 31 04:08:12 PDT 2014


On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 12:39:22PM +0200, John Marino wrote:
> On 8/31/2014 12:29, Sven Gaerner wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> 
> Did you check UPDATING first?  (Yes, I know it means you have to have
> dports source installed)
> 
> python issues are often anticipated and covered in /usr/dports/UPDATING.
> 
> John

I have dports installed, I'm building the ports from source. And I did
not check UPDATING. But I did it now and the latest issue mentioned
related to python is from 05/2014. That did not seem to be related to
this issue.

Sven




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