Re: python and exact dependencies

[Adam Ciarciński <adam%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

> I'm trying to package homeassistant (in wip - partially done), and it
> has exact dependencies on python module packages, rather than accepting
> 0.11.7 when it wanted 0.11.5.
> 
> I have not generally seen this before, and I wonder what our approach is
> in pkgsrc.  I could see any of
> 
>  upstream is buggy and should be fixed to be >=
> 
>  one should use some sort of virtualenv and pip, but somehow within
>  pkgsrc
> 
>  and of course something else I didn't think of.

You should patch setup.py to accept >= instead of ==.

Also, py-homeassistant requires Python >= 3.6.0, so add

PYTHON_VERSIONS_INCOMPATIBLE=27

:)

Kind regards,
Adam