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> What about this change from 'latest' to 'quarterly' with no good way to change that for pkg? I don't want to only get new packages 4 times a year. From the R
by msbarnett 11y ago
> What about this change from 'latest' to 'quarterly' with no good way to change that for pkg? I don't want to only get new packages 4 times a year.
From the Release Notes:
> The default pkg(8) repository set in /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf now defaults to the quarterly package set. To use the latest branch (as was the previous default), the comment at the top of /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf explains how to disable the default repository and specify an alternative repository.
If I'm reading /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf correctly, swapping over to use HEAD instead of the Quarterly branch is as simple as creating /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf with the following content?
FreeBSD: {
url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest"
}
edit: originally I replicated all of the contents of /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf in /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf, but based on pkg.conf(5), the contents of the latter override keys in the former, so you only have to specify the differences
- hyperknot 11y agoThanks for this information! It's strangely missing from the release and the comment in the /etc file. Do you know how are the security updates propagated to quarterly branch? Are they backported till the latest Q release and shipped immediately?
- msbarnett 11y agoDid you upgrade from a previous release? It might not have changed your /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf. I'm basing this off a fresh install. And yes, my understanding is that the quarterly branch is supported for 3 months with backports of security fixes.
- hyperknot 11y agoI haven't yet upgraded, just trying to understand it first. I've made a thread in the official forum, hopefully it'll get clarified. https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/default-repository-changed-to-quarterly-in-10-2.52794/ https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/default-repository-change...