ports/74604: ports/UPDATING: add note regarding getmail and upgrading to Python 2.4

[Linh Pham]

>Number:         74604
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       ports/UPDATING: add note regarding getmail and upgrading to Python 2.4
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 02 04:20:23 GMT 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Linh Pham
>Release:        FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p11 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD q.internal.closedsrc.org 5.2.1-RELEASE-p11 FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE-p11 #3: Thu Oct 14 23:10:30 PDT 2004 question at q.internal.closedsrc.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/Q i386
>Description:
If someone is using getmail and updates an existing version of Python to
version 2.4 (or any other version) will run into an issue where the getmailcore
package cannot be found. This is due to the way the port is installed.

The fix would be either a manual copy of the getmailcore directory under
the previous Python install lib directory to the new one or re-install the
port.

Feel free to edit the note to make it easier to understand, etc.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:

--- UPDATING_getmail_py2.4.diff begins here ---
--- /usr/ports/UPDATING	Wed Dec  1 16:45:37 2004
+++ /home/question/ports/UPDATING	Wed Dec  1 20:10:06 2004
@@ -6,6 +6,15 @@
 time you update your ports collection, before attempting any port
 upgrades.
 
+20041201:
+  AFFECTS: users of mail/getmail
+  AUTHOR: question+fbsdports at closedsrc.org
+
+  When upgrading to Python 2.4, the getmailcore site package needs to be
+  copied manually from the previous Python site-packages directory to the
+  Python 2.4 site-packages directory. This can be done automatically by
+  re-installing mail/getmail.
+
 20041128:
   AFFECTS: users of mail/dspam and mail/dspam-devel
   AUTHOR: itetcu at people.tecnik93.com
--- UPDATING_getmail_py2.4.diff ends here ---


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