From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 5 08:47:54 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id F26F7541 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 08:47:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from avasout08.plus.net (avasout08.plus.net [212.159.14.20]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8601A1F47 for ; Fri, 5 Sep 2014 08:47:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from curlew.milibyte.co.uk ([84.92.153.232]) by avasout08 with smtp id nLnk1o005516WCc01Lnl4U; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 09:47:46 +0100 X-CM-Score: 0.00 X-CNFS-Analysis: v=2.1 cv=fsVSZTIf c=1 sm=1 tr=0 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:117 a=lfSX4pPLp9EkufIcToJk/A==:17 a=D7rCoLxHAAAA:8 a=0Bzu9jTXAAAA:8 a=OOzCJWdBeL0A:10 a=TR_4FDNCDigA:10 a=ZTb9aqGL9YkA:10 a=8nJEP1OIZ-IA:10 a=_SoIQD0lwFyc1lODu-0A:9 a=wPNLvfGTeEIA:10 Received: from curlew.lan ([192.168.1.13]) by curlew.milibyte.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1XPpBI-00018I-JB for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 05 Sep 2014 09:47:44 +0100 From: Mike Clarke To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 09:47:43 +0100 Message-ID: <2235025.v0bkLTEWN2@curlew.lan> User-Agent: KMail/4.12.5 (FreeBSD/9.3-RELEASE; KDE/4.12.5; amd64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <5409613C.2060708@FreeBSD.org> References: <5409613C.2060708@FreeBSD.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.1.13 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on curlew.lan X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Subject: Re: Port version vs PKG version Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-SA-Exim-Version: 4.2 X-SA-Exim-Scanned: Yes (on curlew.milibyte.co.uk) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 08:47:55 -0000 On Friday 05 September 2014 08:07:40 Matthew Seaman wrote: > Package sets are built from ports starting each Wednesday night, and > are usually published the following weekend. So the shortest > possible time it takes is about 3--4 days, and the longest is a > week longer than that. I have a mixture of ports and packages so it looks as though the best way of keeping them in step would be to update my ports tree late Wednesday night then wait until Sunday night before attempting to upgrade ports and packages? I understand that the package repositories are built from a snapshot of the ports tree. To assist users in keeping things in step I wonder if information could be made available for users to access the snapshot which was used for the published version of the repository so we could synchronise our ports tree with the one used for the currently available packages? -- Mike Clarke