ports/188431: Every python 2.7 port is generating broken .PLIST files

[Kevin Thompson]

The following reply was made to PR ports/188431; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Kevin Thompson" <antiduh at csh.rit.edu>
To: bug-followup at freebsd.org, william88 at gmail.com, xmj at freebsd.org,
 koobs.freebsd at gmail.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/188431: Every python 2.7 port is generating broken .PLIST
 files
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2014 09:24:59 -0400

 > Well, of course it will break if you upgrade setuptools, our
 > setuptools has a patch to handle a .PLIST issue with directories.
 
 Could you elaborate? I was trying to follow instructions from  
 /usr/ports/UPDATING:
 
 > 20140307:
 >   AFFECTS: users of devel/py-setuptools dependent ports
 >   AUTHOR: sunpoet at FreeBSD.org
 >  devel/py-setuptools is being used for every python ports (if  
 > USE_PYDISTUTILS
 >   defined) since r336553. Due to PKGORIGIN limitation, we cannot build  
 > one
 >   python port with python27 and the other with python33 since they  
 > require
 >   different setuptools versions which have same PKGORIGIN. With the  
 > addition
 >   of py-setuptools{27,32,33}, we could now have py27-foo and py33-bar  
 > coexist
 >   in one system.
 >  Note that this is only a short-term solution. It does not help if you  
 > need
 >   coexistence of one port with different python versions, e.g. py27-foo  
 > and
 >   py33-foo.
 >  Please rebuild all ports that depend on devel/py-setuptools and use
 >   devel/py-setuptools{27,32,33} instead.
 >  XX represents python version (27, 32 or 33) in the following steps.
 >  pkgng users:
 >  # pkg set -o devel/py-setuptools:devel/py-setuptoolsXX
 >  portmaster users:
 >  # portmaster -o devel/py-setuptoolsXX devel/py-setuptools
 >   # portmaster -r py\*setuptools
 >  portupgrade users:
 >  # portupgrade -o devel/py-setuptoolsXX -f devel/py-setuptools
 >   # portupgrade -fr devel/py-setuptools