devel/scons port fails to build, please contact maintainer

[Adam Weinberger]

> On 4 Dec, 2017, at 14:39, Don Lewis <truckman at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> 
> On  4 Dec, Koen Martens wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I've installed poudriere through pkg, which gives me 3.1.22 at the
>> moment. I'll try 3.2 from ports tomorrow, wasn't aware that the binary
>> packages had an out of date version. I'll report back on whether that
>> worked or not.
> 
> The default package repostitory for pkg is the latest quarterly branch,
> which doesn't have the flavor-compatible version of poudriere.  That's
> not an issue because the currently quarterly ports branch doesn't use
> flavors.
> 
> I wonder if people who use poudriere to build their ports and track the
> quarterly branches will run into sharp edges when they switch from the
> 2017Q4 branch to the 2018Q1 branch and might need to manually bootstrap
> the new version of poudriere.

Hi Don,

You bring up a really good point! Once the dust settles, perhaps merging
poudriere to quarterly might prevent some unpleasant surprises in January.

# Adam


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