Re: Salt on 2026Q3

Miroslav Lachman <[email protected]> Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:51:36 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 13/07/2026 10:42, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> On 7/12/26 20:10, Edward Sanford Sutton, III wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
>>  From /usr/ports/UPDATING:20260624 but with a presentation of applying 
>> it to all poudriere builds you can run the following command:
>>
>> echo "DEFAULT_VERSIONS+= python=3.11">>/usr/local/etc/poudriere.d/ 
>> make.conf
> 
> So you are suggest I use Python 3.11 globally?
> Isn't it possible to just use it for Salt (and of course its dependencies)?
> Can't two version of Python coexhist side by side on the same machine?

What about defining flavor py311 in your list of ports to build with 
Poudriere?

sysutils/py-salt@py311

You can try it on the command line too

poudriere testport -j myjail -p myports sysutils/py-salt@py311

I didn't test it, not sure if it works for Salt, but it works for some 
other ports.

Miroslav Lachman