Ports with duplicate LATEST_LINKS

[Erwin Lansing]

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.

-erwin
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