From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 21 21:33:31 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 33C644FA for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:33:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (smtp6.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:2001:8b0:151:1:3cd3:cd67:fafa:3d78]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk", Issuer "ca.infracaninophile.co.uk" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B937015E for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:33:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from maggot.black-earth.co.uk (maggot.black-earth.co.uk [81.2.117.101]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (8.15.1/8.15.1) with ESMTPSA id t0LLXPeH048555 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:33:25 GMT (envelope-from matthew@FreeBSD.org) Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk; dmarc=none header.from=FreeBSD.org DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.9.2 smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk t0LLXPeH048555 Authentication-Results: smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk/t0LLXPeH048555; dkim=none reason="no signature"; dkim-adsp=none; dkim-atps=neutral Message-ID: <54C01B26.1080407@FreeBSD.org> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:33:26 +0000 From: Matthew Seaman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.10; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: frequency of pkg updates References: <54BFFB43.7060208@networktest.com> In-Reply-To: <54BFFB43.7060208@networktest.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.98.5 at lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.7 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on lucid-nonsense.infracaninophile.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: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:33:31 -0000 On 2015/01/21 19:17, David Newman wrote: > How often is the FreeBSD pkg repository updated? > > Asking because 'sudo pkg audit' sometimes shows vulnerabilities in one > or more packages, yet 'sudo pkg update && sudo pkg upgrade -f name>' offers only to reinstall the vulnerable version. > > An updated pkg can take days to show up. The ports tree is updated much > faster, but I'm trying to move to pkg where possible. (Yes, I know I > could run poudriere and create a pkg repository, but I'm asking here > about FreeBSD's pkg system.) > > This is on 10.1-RELEASE-p4 amd64. Packages are built weekly from a snapshot of the ports taken on a Wednesday at (I think) 01:00 UTC. It's definitely some time on Wednesday though. The package builders then build all of the packages for all the supported release branches + HEAD, which takes until some time the following weekend. Thus if a package of interest to you updates on a Thursday, it can be about 10 days before an updated package is available from the repos. More hardware is being procured to cut down the time it takes to build packages, so the update frequency should improve. Cheers, Matthew