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Date:      Sat, 25 Aug 2018 14:42:18 +0200
From:      "Dries Michiels" <driesm.michiels@gmail.com>
To:        "'Jos Chrispijn'" <bsdports@cloudzeeland.nl>, "'FreeBSD Ports ML'" <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Ports vs packages
Message-ID:  <001a01d43c71$0fe4a240$2fade6c0$@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <5e365091-6889-2f65-78ac-637a7155733a@cloudzeeland.nl>
References:  <5e365091-6889-2f65-78ac-637a7155733a@cloudzeeland.nl>

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> How many times is there between the release of a port and its package - is
> that depending on the port maintainer?

This does not depend on the port maintainer. Ports are the master! Packages
are simply built ports.
These packages are built in bulk on the FreeBSD clusters.
Depending on when a rebuild of a new revision of the ports tree is initiated
it can take up to a few days.

> thanks,
> Jos
> 
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