Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 18:15:43 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports question .... Message-ID: <5401099F.2050609@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <540105B3.2090102@infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <53FF8675.2070009@hiwaay.net> <20140828225153.GA8923@slackbox.erewhon.home> <54006B57.8070703@hiwaay.net> <54006DD8.9090200@qeng-ho.org> <54007189.8070807@hiwaay.net> <540076CD.6000201@qeng-ho.org> <5400793A.4090702@hiwaay.net> <CAO82ECHwoe_6TLkNnG4afuakcLm57vmFwahyAmWoebdqSJZX-A@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408291622510.78665@wonkity.com> <54010271.5050303@hiwaay.net> <540105B3.2090102@infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On 08/29/14 17:58, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 29/08/2014 23:45, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> I just tried that, very nice. What is the correspondence, if any,
>> between ports & pkgs ? i.e. if a new port shows up, is a new pkg for
>> that port soon to follow (if that port is pkg'ed) ? TIA ....
> About 4 to 10 days, depending.
>
> pkg builds for the FreeBSD repos start each Wednesday night using a
> snapshot of the ports tree at that time, and the newly compiled pkgs are
> usually published the following weekend.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
Excellent, Thx :-) ....
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William A. Mahaffey III
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