Re: Unable to build Python38 ports like devel/py38-pycparser and even py38-setuptools

On 2/12/2021 9:56 am, monochrome wrote:
> https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=259981
> 
> I guess the "fix" is to install one or more from within the ports tree 
> and not using portmaster
> 
> 
> 
> On 12/1/21 16:55, Christian Weisgerber wrote:
>> On 2021-11-28, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> If I remember correctly, the fix is to de-install both py38-packaging 
>>> and
>>> py38-setuptools.
>>>> pkg delete -f py38-setuptools
>>>> pkg delete -f py38-packaging
>>>> portmaster devel/pkg-packaging
>>>> portmaster devel/py-setuptools
>>
>> I'm stuck in the same catch-22 and this doesn't work.
>>
>> I can't install py-packaging because it depends on py-setuptools.
>> py-setuptools can't be installed because it seems to require
>> py-packaging:
>>
>>    File 
>> "/extra/obj/usr/ports/devel/py-setuptools/work-py38/setuptools-57.0.0/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 772, in resolve
>>      raise DistributionNotFound(req, requirers)
>> pkg_resources.DistributionNotFound: The 'packaging>=20.0' distribution 
>> was not found and is required by the application
>> *** Error code 1
>>
> 

Note also: There is an outstanding missing build_depends on packaging 
for setuptools_scm which may be responsible for a subset of these cases.

I'm not confident in the assessment of portmaster being the root cause 
over incorrectly declared or scoped dependency sets.