ports tree and upgrading errors

Adam Weinberger adamw at FreeBSD.org
Sat Dec 9 16:09:30 UTC 2017


> On 9 Dec, 2017, at 6:20, tech-lists <tech-lists at zyxst.net> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I get this when trying to upgrade ports:
>
> [Reading data from pkg(8) ... - 620 packages found - done]
> ** Port directory not found: devel/py-setuptools at py27
> ** Port directory not found: devel/py-setuptools at py36
>
> [...]
>
> --->  Listing the results (+:done / -:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed)
> 	- devel/py-setuptools at py27 (port directory error)
> 	- devel/py-setuptools at py36 (port directory error)
>
> I use svnlite to update the ports tree and portupgrade to upgrade ports.
> There is nothing specific in UPDATING that addresses this, other than
> portupgrade not handling FLAVORS right now.
>
> Do I have to worry about this error? Can I correct it?

@py27 is a flavor, so what you're seeing is portupgrade being unable to
handle FLAVORS. Work is actively underway on portupgrade, but there's
no target date. In the meantime you can use poudriere, synth, or plain
make commands.

# Adam


-- 
Adam Weinberger
adamw at adamw.org
https://www.adamw.org



More information about the freebsd-ports mailing list