portell breakage

[Manolis Kiagias]

Joshua Isom wrote:
> I recently upgraded my ports tree which included the python update. 
> Everything went smoothly(except that openchrome on amd64 requires a
> hand patch), but now portell won't run.  I can create a database, but
> all I get otherwise is:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/local/bin/portell", line 93, in <module>
>     main()
>   File "/usr/local/bin/portell", line 73, in main
>     if d.has_key(portname):
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python2.6/shelve.py", line 107, in has_key
>     return key in self.dict
> TypeError: argument of type 'bsddb.bsddb' is not iterable
>
> I've tried reinstalling python26 and portell, as well as seeing if a
> missing dependency of databases/py-bsddb was the cause to no avail.  I
> haven't found anyone else having this error, so I'm not sure how to
> fix it.  Has anyone else had this happen and know how to fix it?
>

Same here. First I thought something went wrong with the python upgrade,
but then checked in a clean vmware install and got the same results. Not
sure about the fix, but this is either an incompatibility  of portell
with 2.6, or a python bug.