From owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Tue Sep 5 01:50:21 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3CA8E0AFF7 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 2017 01:50:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dmahoney@isc.org) Received: from mx.pao1.isc.org (mx.pao1.isc.org [149.20.64.53]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "mx.pao1.isc.org", Issuer "COMODO RSA Organization Validation Secure Server CA" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DEB886B32C; Tue, 5 Sep 2017 01:50:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dmahoney@isc.org) Received: from bikeshed.isc.org (bikeshed.isc.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:3:d::19]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.pao1.isc.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 05D9534A89D; Tue, 5 Sep 2017 01:50:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bikeshed.isc.org (Postfix, from userid 10302) id E76E2216C1E; Tue, 5 Sep 2017 01:50:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bikeshed.isc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5905216C1C; Tue, 5 Sep 2017 01:50:06 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 5 Sep 2017 01:50:06 +0000 (UTC) From: Dan Mahoney To: bdrewery@FreeBSD.org, bapt@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Poudreiere auto-track quarterly ports? Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.20 (BSF 67 2015-01-07) X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 0xE919EC51 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00, RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on mx.pao1.isc.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2017 01:50:21 -0000 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