Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2017 07:44:42 +0100 From: Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is pkg quarterly really needed? Message-ID: <1492670682.1592874.950196360.7EF5A9A1@webmail.messagingengine.com> In-Reply-To: <58F61A8D.1030309@a1poweruser.com> References: <58F61A8D.1030309@a1poweruser.com>
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On Tue, Apr 18, 2017, at 02:54 PM, qjail1 wrote: > I maintain a port and I have users complaining that the pkg system takes > many months before the updated version of my port shows up in the pkg > system. > > My response is I tell them to change a line in their > /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf file > from url: "pkg+http://pkg.Freebsd.org/${ABI}/quarterly", > to url: "pkg+http://pkg.Freebsd.org/${ABI}/latest", > > The old pkg system never had this quarterly update cycle and I see no > reason to have it now when its so easy to over ride the default. > > Why not just change the default to "latest" and save on all the overhead > of the quarterly cycle? I have to say that if pkg abandoned the cautious update cycle, I'd abandon FreeBSD. I've really had enough of constant upgrades. The one thing I have which needs constant upgrades is a Flash video downloader. I keep that in ~/bin and use its built-in upgrade mechanism when required, which is simple. I don't need to get it via some root-only mechanism. It doesn't have a man page of course, but --help|less is easy enough.
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