[MacPorts] #18408: Cannot upgrade mercurial (macports wants to reinstall latest dependencies)

[robert delius royar]

Mon, 9 Feb 2009 (13:31 -0500 UTC) Daniel J. Luke wrote:

> On Feb 7, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>> I don't really understand the symptoms you are reporting.
>
> Robert said before that he was using 'direct' mode (+ archivemode), and this 
> looks a lot like the current problems with it.

That is correct, except I have -archivemode (not using archivemode).

BTW, I finally uninstalled gettext, libiconv, python25, and mercurial 
then reinstalled pyhton25 (which led to gettext and libiconv 
reinstalling).  Then mercurial installed OK.  It wanted to clean gettext 
and libiconv again at the outset, however, which seemed odd.

One thing that I do not like about the current python25 is that it no 
longer works with readline (eventhough I have readline installed via 
Macports).  The version 3 patches earlier did support readline which 
meant I could edit interactive commands.  I do not use python 
interactively very often, so it is no big issue.  The rationale for not 
supporting readline in the Python docs says it is because of problems 
with Apple's 10.4.  And the Port file adds --without-readline.  But even 
removing that from the Port file configuration does not get readline 
back.  I guess that is an upstream issue.

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