Poudriere build failure: finance/electrum@py312

[Micski]

While Poudriere was building Electrum for FreeBSD 14.4, the building stopped, when dependency check for Asyncio NOSTR client failed. The issue seems to be a version requirement. I tested building with Python 3.11 and 3.12. If you have tips, I would be happy to learn more about, how to fix this issue.

Extracting py312-electrum-aionostr-0.1.0: ………. done
py312-electrum-4.6.2 depends on package: py312-electrum-aionostr>=0.0.11,<0.1 – not found
make: stopped making “run-depends” in /usr/ports/finance/electrum

 

[Alain De Vos]

make.conf:
default:
DEFAULT_VERSIONS+=python=3.11

Try different versions ? Otherwise bug report in bugzilla

 

[Micski]

Is it possible to override or disable the "<0.1" in the Poudriere Make settings? It looks like it must be below 0.1, but it is 0.1 exactly.

 

[Alain De Vos]

I would advice to enter bug report,
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=electrum&list_id=955291

 

[SirDice]

I would advice to enter bug report,

There's one already; PR 278397

It probably needs an update on finance/electrum, but that port is unmaintained. Upsteam has 4.7.2 available, the port is still at 4.6.2

 

[Micski]

Is the real cause, that users has moved to a another Bitcoin client in the ports tree?

 

[Alain De Vos]

Dear, coins are specific,
Times are changes.
Question "what you want" , ' and how'.
I want lots of gold. You have (joking)

 

[Micski]

Technically, the dependency version check can be changed, which will solve the issue. This can be done in wrapper script or manually. In both methods, the version requirement in the Makefile is substituted with a higher limit. Poudriere will compile it with no issues and Electrum runs right out. I have not tested actual connection and transaction operations.

However, as SirDice mentioned, Electrum 4.6.2 was released 2025-08-25 and has since reached 4.7.2. A better solution is probably to download and verify Electrum from the official website and then running it without installing. Electrum is a Python application and should run, if Python and necessary dependencies is installed. The procedure is published on the official website.

Thanks for all the input. Also off-thread inputs from former maintainer.

 

[SirDice]

A better solution is probably to download and verify Electrum from the official website and then running it without installing.

An even better solution is to update the port to the latest version. That would probably also solve the dependency issues.

In case you aren't aware, anyone can submit patches to update a port, regardless if it's maintained or not. The only real difference between a maintained and unmaintained port is that a maintainer would need to approve that patch. There's no maintainer on this port any more, if the patch is good (no build issues) then a port committer can apply it.