Re: holding rust at a particular version

On 2024-04-15 09:58, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> On 15 Apr 2024, at 18:48, Chris <portmaster@bsdforge.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 2024-04-15 09:31, Moin Rahman wrote:
>>>> 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. :/
>> I'm sorry to hear this. For the sake of clarity; Is this just my ignorance 
>> for rust?
>> I have no difficulty accomplishing this task with other targets -- perl, 
>> php, *SQL,...
>> So long as the *chosen* version is still available within the ports tree. 
>> Granted;
>> this isn't a one-size-fits-all situation. Much the same as mixing ports && 
>> packages.
>> But if carefully curated, has worked for me.
> 
> The problem is that there is only one lang/rust. There are no
> "versioned" port versions, like lang/phpXY, lang/pythonXYZ, etc. There
> is a lang/rust-nightly port, but I don't think it is meant for general
> consumption.
> 
> That said, I don't know if it is technically possible to have more than
> one rust port. I would guess the whole crate system depends on which
> rust version built it? If so, you would also have to "flavorize" all
> the rust crates and their sub-ports.
> 
> It sounds like quite a lot of work, while in the mean time the rust
> releases keep on coming fast. :)
That makes perfect sense. Thanks for the clarification, Dimitry! :)
> 
> -Dimitry

-- 
--Chris Hutchinson