2013/10/6 Marcus von Appen <m...@freebsd.org> > On, Sat Oct 05, 2013, Daamn M wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Sorry if I'm asking a question that have been asked many times but I > > couldn't find an answer using google. > > > > I need to install few version of Python (at least 2.6, 2.7 and 3.3). I > > really appreciate that FreeBSD let me have many versions the same time. > But > > I have a problem when I need some third party library. It turns out that > I > > can have only one instance. > > > > For example: I have installed python 2.7 and then port py-someport. Then > I > > installed python 3.3 and set PYTHON_DEFAULT_VERSION to point python 3.3. > If > > I try to install port py-someport again I wll get an error message saying > > that an older version is already installed. > > This is a limitation in package handling at the moment. The FreeBSD > ports tree unfortunately uses the origin (e.g. devel/py-someport) to > check, if a port was already installed, instead of e.g. the package name > (e.g. py33-someport, py27-someport, etc.). > > This is something being out of scope of the FreeBSD python team, but we > hope for a change of that behaviour in the near future. >
Do you know something more about this future? Is there any real work done to change it? I would appreciate a link if you know. > > > The way a port is registered in the database suggest that there could be > > more than one version. I mean: port py-someport is registered as > > py27-someport when installed for python 2.7. > > > > Now I copy ports adding versio prefix. For example to install py-someport > > for version 3.3 I copy the port as py33-someport. I works pretty well > but I > > don't find it a clean way. > > > > Could you help? > > Your best chance at the moment would be to use virtualenv, if > possible. Most python packages feature pip support, so that you could > > 1) change to your specific virtualenv > 2) pip install <python package> > (or easy_install <python package>) > 3) work in your virtualenv Cheers > Marcus > I think I will do it that way. But it would be nice to manage with packages from the OS level. Thanks for your comment Regards, Putrycy _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
