diff --git a/devel/py-pexpect/Makefile b/devel/py-pexpect/Makefile
index d77e3c862029..75ca4ece57ec 100644
--- a/devel/py-pexpect/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-pexpect/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.27 2022/01/01 12:40:32 martin Exp $
+# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.28 2022/01/01 17:43:42 wiz Exp $
 
 DISTNAME=	pexpect-4.8.0
 PKGNAME=	${PYPKGPREFIX}-${DISTNAME}
@@ -16,4 +16,9 @@ DEPENDS+=	${PYPKGPREFIX}-ptyprocess>=0.5:../../sysutils/py-ptyprocess
 USE_LANGUAGES=	# none
 
 .include "../../lang/python/egg.mk"
+
+.if ${PYPKGPREFIX} == "py27"
+_PYSETUPTOOLSINSTALLARGS:=	${PYSETUPTOOLSINSTALLARGS:N--single-version-externally-managed}
+.endif
+
 .include "../../mk/bsd.pkg.mk"
diff --git a/devel/py-pexpect/PLIST b/devel/py-pexpect/PLIST
index 6f0775c74a86..42453559838d 100644
--- a/devel/py-pexpect/PLIST
+++ b/devel/py-pexpect/PLIST
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
-@comment $NetBSD: PLIST,v 1.9 2022/01/01 12:40:32 martin Exp $
-${PYSITELIB}/${EGG_INFODIR}/PKG-INFO
-${PYSITELIB}/${EGG_INFODIR}/SOURCES.txt
-${PYSITELIB}/${EGG_INFODIR}/dependency_links.txt
-${PYSITELIB}/${EGG_INFODIR}/requires.txt
-${PYSITELIB}/${EGG_INFODIR}/top_level.txt
+@comment $NetBSD: PLIST,v 1.10 2022/01/01 17:43:42 wiz Exp $
+${PLIST.py3x}${PYSITELIB}/${EGG_INFODIR}/PKG-INFO
+${PLIST.py3x}${PYSITELIB}/${EGG_INFODIR}/SOURCES.txt
+${PLIST.py3x}${PYSITELIB}/${EGG_INFODIR}/dependency_links.txt
+${PLIST.py3x}${PYSITELIB}/${EGG_INFODIR}/requires.txt
+${PLIST.py3x}${PYSITELIB}/${EGG_INFODIR}/top_level.txt
 ${PYSITELIB}/pexpect/ANSI.py
 ${PYSITELIB}/pexpect/ANSI.pyc
 ${PYSITELIB}/pexpect/ANSI.pyo