poudriere && building for "."

[Alexandr Kovalenko]

On Sun, Sep 9, 2012 at 10:24 PM, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 09, 2012 at 07:48:37PM +0300, Alexandr Kovalenko wrote:
>> I have a quick question about poudriere and building for HEAD (AKA .
>> AKA 10.0-CURRENT).
>>
>> When I created my buildjail, I used "." to specify version and method "csup".
>>
>> The funny thing is that now I get (please note "." instead of "10.0"):
>>
>> checking build system type... i386-portbld-freebsd.
>> checking host system type... i386-portbld-freebsd.
>>
>> in all package builds.
>>
>> Most of packages do not dislike this, but there is at least one, which
>> does - namely lsof - it fails to detect FreeBSD version.
>>
>> Could you please advise a solution for this?
>
> This should "normally" have been fixed in 2.0 and -devel, but it would needs you
> to destroy/recreate your jail.
>
> Can you tell me which version of poudriere you were using when creating your
> jail?

poudriere-1.5.4_1   Port build and test system

> Another way and simpler way to deal with package building on HEAD, is to use the
> new allbsd method, which will fetch the latest current sets build by allbsd.org
> people.

Not quite sure I understand what you are talking about, could you,
please, be more precise? :)

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Alexandr Kovalenko