Keeping Ports and Packages Synchronized

Doug Barton dougb at FreeBSD.org
Thu Jul 26 23:38:04 UTC 2007


Kurt Abahar wrote:

> I have tried the portupgrade way, but unfortunately
> the packages lag behind ports the majority of the
> time.

It's actually 100% of the time, and always will be.

> This led me to think that keeping the ports tree
> a little behind HEAD would be a better solution.
> However, I don't know how to get a hold of this "lag
> time." Is it a few days, a few weeks or ... ?

Maybe you can describe in more detail what you're trying to
accomplish. Leave out potential solutions, just describe what your
goal is.

hth,

Doug

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