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Date:      Tue, 14 Jul 2009 08:54:51 +0800
From:      Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Erwin Lansing <erwin@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        python@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ports with duplicate LATEST_LINKS
Message-ID:  <20090714005451.GA90576@FreeBSD.cs.nctu.edu.tw>
In-Reply-To: <20090713173739.GJ83265@droso.net>
References:  <200907091332.n69DWgXF055913@pointyhat.freebsd.org> <1e39c0a90907091948i5b11a4fdrb0d75cd08f245eac@mail.gmail.com> <20090710145547.GE86673@droso.net> <1e39c0a90907120222m4d0d7736ga6a7221e514b836b@mail.gmail.com> <20090713173739.GJ83265@droso.net>

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On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 19:37:40 +0200, Erwin Lansing wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 12, 2009 at 05:22:14PM +0800, Li-Wen Hsu wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I think these two are not an issue.  Default Python version is switched to 2.6.
> > >>
> > >> But how this report generated?  Switching happened before
> > >> databases/py25-bsddb repocpoied.
> > >>
> > > The script is in Tools/scripts/check-latest-link.  Could this be caused
> > > by the installed python version on the system it runs on?
> > 
> > Sounds possible, and that's what bsd.python.mk does.
> > databases/py25-bsddb is a slave port of databases/py-bsddb,
> > which generates python 2.5 package for some ports depend on
> > specified python version.  When a system with python 2.5
> > as the default setting, databases/py-bsddb and databases/py25-bsddb
> > should generate same package.  So now the problem is, is it OK for them
> > have same LATEST_LINK?  Or we can just ignore this problem, since this
> > should not effect official package build, and the latest links on the ftp.
> > 
> As you probably saw on the ports list, this also broke INDEX (not
> noticed before because the INDEX script has wedged it zfs mount).  It
> looks like overriding LOCALBASE to /nonexistent does fix both issue as
> the script will no longer see the locally installed python version.
> This solves this issue.

Sorry that I am a bit confusted about what you mean.  Are you suggesting
me to override these ports' LOCALBASE to /nonexistent ?  Or this means
that everything works fine now?

-- 
Li-Wen Hsu <lwhsu AT FreeBSD.org>
http://lwhsu.org



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