Re: holding rust at a particular version

> On Apr 15, 2024, at 6:27 PM, Chris <portmaster@bsdforge.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2024-04-15 06:33, void wrote:
>> Is it possible, either within poudriere or using traditional ports,
>> to not have ports building fetching latest rust?
>> rust 1.76 is already installed. 1.77 is in the ports tree.
>> 1.76 is the latest for -current on arm64 on the pkg builders.
>> if I go into the ports tree and build something needing rust,
>> it'll build 1.77 rust locally instead of using the already-installed 1.76.
>> which would tie the machine up for hours if not days if allowed to proceed.
>> Can this be avoided?
> make.conf(5) is your friend. You should be able to add
> DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=rust1.76
> to accomplish your task. NOTE you may want to comment this line later
> should it cause problems with other ports that aren't your current target.
> IOW your choices here should be chosen carefully and watched closely. It's
> easy to set it and forget it. :)
> To get the right permutation. Have a look in Mk/bsd.default-versions.mk
> 
> --
> --Chris Hutchinson
> 

This is not correct. :/