Re: The state of packages based on Python ports

2012-01-31 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 05:37:54PM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: > ftp.freebsd.org: /pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-8.2-release/All We don't update ports in the *-release directories once the release has been cut. Our recommendation is that you should always keep your ports tree up-to-date, and dow

Re: The state of packages based on Python ports

2012-01-31 Thread wen heping
2012/2/1 Mark Linimon > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 04:24:24PM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: > > Nearly all of the packages in the packages system for Python-related > > ports are for Python 2.6 *only*. > Maybe you should check your /etc/make.conf , do you set default python version to 2.6 ? wen >

Re: The state of packages based on Python ports

2012-01-31 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Jan 31, 2012, at 5:11 PM, wen heping wrote: > Maybe you should check your /etc/make.conf , do you set default python > version to 2.6 ? I'm talking about packages in the FreeBSD packages repository, not ports I build on my box. --Paul Hoffman___ f

Re: The state of packages based on Python ports

2012-01-31 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Jan 31, 2012, at 4:45 PM, Mark Linimon wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 04:24:24PM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: >> Nearly all of the packages in the packages system for Python-related >> ports are for Python 2.6 *only*. > > er, you'll have to tell me where you're seeing this? ftp.freebsd.org:

Re: The state of packages based on Python ports

2012-01-31 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 04:24:24PM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: > Nearly all of the packages in the packages system for Python-related > ports are for Python 2.6 *only*. er, you'll have to tell me where you're seeing this? I checked on pointyhat, on a recent i386-8 build for 8-STABLE: $ pwd /dum

The state of packages based on Python ports

2012-01-31 Thread Paul Hoffman
OK, so that last one went nowhere, let me try a more general topic. Nearly all of the packages in the packages system for Python-related ports are for Python 2.6 *only*. Those packages cannot be applied to Python 2.7 or Python 3.x. Is there a good reason for this, particularly in light of the mu