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Date:      Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:36:45 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Alexander Botero-Lowry <alexbl@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Marcus von Appen <mva@sysfault.org>, freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, freebsd-python@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Python 2.5 egg-info files break pkg-plists
Message-ID:  <20061011193645.GA21867@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <200610111920.k9BJKCUN034366@Laptop.mine.box>
References:  <20061011190654.GA1030@medusa.sysfault.org> <200610111920.k9BJKCUN034366@Laptop.mine.box>

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On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 12:20:12PM -0700, Alexander Botero-Lowry wrote:
> >=20
> > Hi,
> >=20
> > Python 2.5 seems to install automatically generated egg-info files for
> > each package. This causes each port, which installs files into
> > the site-packages directory to leave files around:
> >=20
> > For devel/pygame this would be pygame-1.7.1release-py2.5.egg-info.
> > For x11-toolkits/py-tkinter this would be Tkinter-0.0.0-py2.5.egg-info
> > ...
> Yeah, we have a patch to resolve this against bsd.python.mk which I belie=
ve is awaiting=20
> approval. You can see the patch at:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~perky/bsdpythonmk-egginfo.diff

Unfortunately this patch appears to break as many plists as it fixes
:)

I've requested that the change that made python 2.5 the default be
reverted; about 100 package build failures so far tell me that it was
nowhere near ready to happen, and particularly not right before a
ports freeze.

Kris
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