python, port select and group
Ryan Schmidt
ryandesign at macports.org
Thu Oct 13 16:47:11 CEST 2016
> On Oct 13, 2016, at 6:30 AM, Björn Raupach <raupach at me.com> wrote:
>
> Dear group,
>
> I am not very familiar with groups and the port select command. Maybe someone can shed some light.
>
> At first I assumed it sets the default symlink for the command in /usr/bin, but then I don’t seem to understand the output of port select —summary
>
> Name Selected Options
> ==== ======== =======
> awscli py34-awscli py34-awscli none
> maven maven3 maven3 none
> mysql mysql56 mysql56 none
> pip none none
> python none python26-apple python27-apple python34 none
> python3 none python34 none
>
> Why is python in more than one group? If I call python from the command line it launches the python3.4 even though port select shows that none is selected.
>
> port select —set python python34 yields an error: Selection ‘python34’ for ‘python’ failed: symlink: /opt/local/etc/select/python/current -> python34: file already exists.
Maybe you had selected python3.x with MacPorts before, then you uninstalled MacPorts without un-selecting python, and now you've installed MacPorts again?
You could remove the /opt/local/etc/select/python/current symlink manually and try again, though I'm unclear on why it would be complaining that it already exists; it's normal for it to already exist.
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