port select *

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Mon Sep 14 19:06:15 PDT 2009


On 2009-09-15 00:02 , Neil wrote:
> I'm running into some problems with port select...
> 
> 1. It'd be nice if there was a command that showed you what _could_ be
> selected by port select. (Maybe "port select --list", with no other args?)
> 
> 2. But the bigger problem is that I can't get it to work at all:
> $ sudo port select --set python python26
> Selecting 'python26' for 'python' failed: The configuration file
> '/opt/local/etc/select/python/base' could not be opened.

At the moment you still need to install the python_select port for this
to work.

My plan will be to migrate everything to 'port select' and add that base
file to the dependencies of pythonXY, so in the future this will be more
user friendly. First I would have to check if 'port select' works with a
non default frameworks dir as we recently discovered bugs in
python_select, but I did not have time yet.

Rainer


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