py-borgbackup does not install with portmaster: it does not detect the right python version

Kurt Jaeger lists at opsec.eu
Wed May 25 03:36:47 UTC 2016


Hi!

> please I need some advice about this PR:
> 
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=209649
> 
> The issue seems to be related to portmaster, as I think it does not
> detect that py-borgbackup requires 3.4 python version packages instead
> of 2.7. The critical output is the following:

That's a general issue not yet solved in general:

How do ports depend on py3-related ports and not their py2 variants ?

Right now it requires py3 ports for every dependency, which is
not always available.

See 

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=207005 

for an example. I think Ben can explain it in more detail (in Cc:).

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