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Date:      Tue, 5 Sep 2017 01:50:06 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Dan Mahoney <dmahoney@isc.org>
To:        bdrewery@FreeBSD.org, bapt@freebsd.org
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   Poudreiere auto-track quarterly ports?
Message-ID:  <alpine.BSF.2.20.1709050139490.63500@bikeshed.isc.org>

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Hey there All,

Is there an easy way to have poudriere auto-track the latest quarterly 
ports build tree, without having to manually reset it to a specific 
branch?

Poudriere knows how to portsnap the latest ports/head, but not the latest 
quarterly.

Example: Currently, I can't build ports due to a failure in -HEAD for one 
of my dependencies (xerces-c3-3.2.0) which causes several other ports to 
fail as well.

Presumably, this port is more stable in the quarterly branch, which is 
where me (and I think most people) would like to do most of our building 
with -- for those of us that are only building custom ports to get new 
options, not those of us that need the latest-greatest code.

However, that means that four times a year, one needs to manually do 
surgery on our repos, not only to pull in the new quarterly branch, but 
also to re-point pkg at the new build location.

It would work better if poudriere were either aware of the way the 
quarterly branches are named, OR if there was a tag that always pointed a 
the current quarterly, same as in pkg.

Is this possible?

-Dan Mahoney



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