> On Sep 11, 2016, at 3:40 AM, David Epstein <david.epst...@warwick.ac.uk> > wrote: > >> On 10 Sep 2016, at 23:10, Lawrence Velázquez <lar...@macports.org> wrote: > > … snip … > >>>> Did you uninstall python27? >>> >>> I think so. The ls -l command above does not find /opt/local/bin/python*, >>> except for symbolic links. >>> What port command could I give to make sure? >> >> "port installed python27 and active” > > Confusingly this gets an answer that is readily misinterpreted, namely >> None of the specified ports are installed. > > In contrast >> port installed python27 > > does not (inadvertently) deceive: it gives >> The following ports are currently installed: >> python27 @2.7.11_2
Yes, that's right. That port *is not active*, so it was not displayed by the first command. >> What you could try is explicitly setting and then unsetting: >> >> sudo port select --set python python27-apple > > I tried this and got: >> Selecting 'python27-apple' for 'python' failed: symlink: >> /opt/local/etc/select/python/current -> python27-apple: file already exists > So then I did >> ls -l /opt/local/etc/select/python/current > and got >> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root admin 8 9 Jun 19:13 >> /opt/local/etc/select/python/current@ -> python27 > This seems to me to indicate a bug in “port select —summary”. No, the bug is in the way base doesn't clean up select links when the selected port is deactivated. > Firstly, it seems to answer incorrectly for inactive ports, like python27 in > my case. I would have expected “port select —summary” to give python27 as an > option. Why? You can't select an inactive port. > Secondly, it seems to incorrectly and indirectly imply that python26-apple > and python27-apple are installed, which I think was your interpretation, but > they aren’t installed, as I have checked with the “port installed” command. The "python*-apple" entries denote the system Python installations. There are no ports with those names. vq _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
