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On 6/12/2014 6:42 AM, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 06:11:13AM -0700, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
>> Is there a way to determine the ports tree revision used for the current
>> public pkg repo?
>>
>
> Right now you have no way but knowing that we take a snapshot of the ports tree
> at 1am UTC every wednesday and build on it

I'll cron the svn update to coincide. That should make the race window 
narrow enough to be mostly avoided.

> With pkg 1.3 we will add some metadata to the repo specifying the revision used
> We also to plan to add a "ports" package so pkg install ports will install the
> ports tree used to build the packages

Oh nice!  Exposing the revision number would be a really useful bit of 
info.  I could easily grab that and feed it to svn.