ports/133081: [bsd.python.mk] PYEASYINSTALL_ARCHDEP=yes makes broken packages

[Stef Walter]

The following reply was made to PR ports/133081; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Stef Walter <stef at memberwebs.com>
To: Victor Balada Diaz <victor at bsdes.net>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: ports/133081: [bsd.python.mk] PYEASYINSTALL_ARCHDEP=yes makes
 broken packages
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 14:59:39 +0100

 On 11/16/2012 09:42 PM, Victor Balada Diaz wrote:
 > I've just been beaten by this issue while installing sysutils/salt
 > from pkgng. Salt depends on py-m2crypto, which use PYEASYINSTALL_ARCHDEP.
 > 
 > As pkgng makes using binary packages much easier, this problem will start
 > affecting more users as new releases start with it by default.
 > 
 > Is there any update on fixing this issue?
 
 I got a lot of push back from upstream folks talking about how using
 distutils isn't the right way forward and so on and so forth. So I
 backed away and left this to be handled by someone more intimately involved.
 
 In many of my previous clients large deployments they've been using
 these patches for about 5 years now. Without them the way the
 architecture dependent python packages work is just broken.
 
 Cheers,
 
 Stef