Friday, June 11, 2021

Re: OpenBSD 6.8, ports collection, Python 2.7 installation fails with “requires a clean source tree"

On Fri, Jun 11, 2021 at 08:24:33AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> Is /usr/ports a symlink? I don't know if it results in this problem, but
> IIRC the python build has some problem with that. (If you need to move the
> ports directory because you didn't account for it when partitioning, use
> PORTSDIR in /etc/mk.conf not a symlink).

> Why not just pkg_add nmap though?

That's when I saw this problem myself. I had put the ports tree in /home/ports
and symlinked it from /usr/ports.

--Kurt

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