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Date:      Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:14:48 -0500
From:      Glen Barber <gjb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Johnny Sun <johnny@interpro.com.hk>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: misc/164838: Precompiled package sysutils/smartmontools 5.42_2 is not working properly in 9.0-RELEASE-i386
Message-ID:  <20120216021448.GB1837@glenbarber.us>
In-Reply-To: <4F3C6452.6000007@interpro.com.hk>
References:  <201202150548.q1F5mx9U026468@freefall.freebsd.org> <4F3B7B6C.80701@interpro.com.hk> <4F3B81EE.8070500@FreeBSD.org> <4F3C6452.6000007@interpro.com.hk>

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On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 10:05:06AM +0800, Johnny Sun wrote:
> Maybe I have same missing background knowledge.  I assume *pkg_add -r*
> command will always get the latest version, not a snap shot version.  If

'pkg_add -r' will fetch the version of the software that was available
in the ports tree at the time the FreeBSD version was released.  These
packages are not rebuilt.

Glen



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