Re: holding rust at a particular version

On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 14:33:33 +0100
void <void@f-m.fm> 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?

Perhaps this is a feature of poudriere, but I don't think this is the
case for ports themselves.

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 Piotr Smyrak