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Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2018 17:48:24 +0200
From: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: unreliable pkg upgrade of pecl / pear packages after flavors
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On Tue, 3 Apr 2018 17:34:25 +0200
Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org> wrote:

>On Tue, Apr 03, 2018 at 05:07:22AM -0700, David Wolfskill wrote:
>> How would someone performing only binary package updates know to
>> look at ports/UPDATING, and how would that be done?  Such an
>> installation may well not have /usr/ports at all.  
>
>I assumed pkg updating worked without a /usr/ports, seems I was wrong.

FWIW, there are UPDATING RSS feeds:
https://wiki.freebsd.org/Ports/#Services