Python 2.6 update with portmaster

[Wesley Shields]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 11:29:45AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 16:44:41 +0200
> Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >2009/6/10 Wesley Shields <wxs at freebsd.org>:
> >> Here's a patch[1] that allows you to use portmaster when doing the
> >> python upgrade. I intend to commit this tomorrow morning unless
> >> someone speaks up. I'll also be adding the instructions to the
> >> UPDATING entry.
> >>
> >> Once applied you should be able to use:
> >>
> >> cd /usr/ports/lang/python && make upgrade-site-packages
> >> -DUSE_PORTMASTER
> >>
> >> It will be quite slow compared to using pkg_which (the normal
> >> method) so be patient. I've used this patch to upgrade one lightly
> >> used machine and I know at least one other person has survived an
> >> upgrade of a machine with over 1000 ports installed.
> >>
> >> [1]: http://people.freebsd.org/~wxs/python26-portmaster.diff
> >>
> >I applied the patch, but there is something wrong:
> >
> >> # make upgrade-site-packages -DUSE_PORTMASTER
> >> Syntax error: end of file unexpected (expecting "}")
> >> *** Error code 2
> >>
> >> Stop in /usr/ports/lang/python.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Ren??
> 
> IMHO, it seems like there is a lot of energy being spent on this rather
> trivial problem. Why not just use the 'portupgrade' solution and be
> done with it. This is not like it happens everyday. After all, it is
> only one port.

It's not hurting anyone and helps those of us who would normally have to
install portupgrade and it's dependencies just for this, then remove
them when we are done. It's either that or we do the upgrade manually.

I'm all for having more than one tool to do the job, and I'd like to see
my tool of choice work and not have to use something else for this one
case, no matter how infrequent it is. And once it's working we won't
have to go through this again.

-- WXS