portmaster -r failure

[Jochen Neumeister]

Hi,


Am 16.04.2017 um 02:04 schrieb Gary Aitken:
> Hi all,
>
> I was updating some ports and got the following message:
>
> ===>  Checking if py27-setuptools already installed
> ===>   Registering installation for py27-setuptools-32.1.0_1 as automatic
> Installing py27-setuptools-32.1.0_1...
> pkg-static: py27-setuptools-32.1.0_1 conflicts with 
> py27-setuptools27-32.1.0 (installs files into the same place). 
> Problematic file
> : /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/easy-install.pth.dist
>
> So I did
>   portmaster -r devel/py27-setuptools
>
> but I get the same error.
> Isn't the point of -r to get around this problem?
>
> So then I did
>   portmaster -e py27-setuptools27-32.1.0
> and when it asked if I wanted to delete all the dependencies,
> I replied "y"
Do you see UPDATING from 16-3-2017?

py27-setuptools27 was moves to py27-setuptools
>
> However, that did absolutely nothing, and left everything installed with
> the same old dependencies.
>
> obviously I'm doing something wrong.  Hints?
> (I may have the above commands slightly wrong, i.e. omitting the devel/
> at the front of py27-setuptools; don't have the output anymore.)
>
Cheers
Jochen