FEATURE REQUEST: specify packages to fetch instead of building

[vermaden]

I have a question about Poudriere.

Is there option to - fetch for example 'lang/gcc12' as package - and then build other things you want to build in that repo?

The 'lang/gcc12' fails to build (multiple times I tried):

• https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=272862

[nunotexbsd]

poudriere-devel have -b latest|quarterly that I use frequently doing testport on releases.

[vermaden]

Nice, I will try that right away. thank You.

[vermaden]

I have tried the poudriere-devel with -b latest but it still wants to build lang/gcc12.

How can I FORCE Poudriere to NOT build lang/gcc12 EVER AGAIN and always fetch it from repositories?

Thanks.

[igalic]

@vermaden can you test https://github.com/freebsd/poudriere/pull/1064 and see if that helps?

[vermaden]

After applying this patch:

• https://github.com/freebsd/poudriere/pull/1064/commits/6b3aa54c1e48109a83d4443a341f7e4d7e098e36

I believe it works as desired and only several ports were actually compiled.

These I wanted:

security/krb5
security/sudo
security/cyrus-sasl2
security/cyrus-sasl2-gssapi
net/openldap26-client
net/samba413

These were compiled:

devel/p5-Parse-Yapp 
security/cyrus-sasl2-gssapi
net/openldap26-client   
dns/bind-tools  
databases/ldb22
net/samba413    
security/sssd@default   
security/sudo           

That is what I was looking for.

I hope this common.sh patch will make it upstream into the poudriere-devel and sometime in the future into poudriere port/package.

Regards, vermaden

[vermaden]

... and most important - thank You very much for you help and suggestions.

You saved me a lot of time.

[patmaddox]

If you want to see why it's building, when you think it should fetch: run poudriere bulk -v -n and look at the output. The things to look for are:

1. remote / local version mismatch
2. options wanted / remote mismatch
3. deps wanted / remote mismatch

So at least you can check that the packages it builds makes sense. That's how I found the issue with the duplicate options and deps. With #1064, it only builds packages where there's a true version / options / deps mismatch between local and remote.