[Bug 245667] [feature request] ports-mgmt/pkg: Determine ports branch of active pkg repo

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=245667

--- Comment #7 from Jason W. Bacon <jwb@freebsd.org> ---
FYI, I recently made an improvement to auto-pkg-branch (part of
sysutils/auto-admin) for quarterly packages.

Rather than use today's date as it did before, it checks the time stamp on
meta.txz:

fetch -o $tmpfile
http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:$major:$arch/quarterly/meta.txz        
mod_time=$(ls -l -D '%Y-%m' $tmpfile | awk '{ print $6 }')

This provides an account of when the packages were likely last updated rather
than assume they're updated every quarter.  In fact, quarterly packages for
13.0-RELEASE powerpc64 were never published for 2020Q4, so this improvement
prevented my ports tree from being knocked out of sync with the package set.

This is still a hack, though, since it's probably possible for meta.txz to be
touched without the packages actually being updated to the current quarter.

It would be really nice if we had an officially supported method for
determining the packages branch.

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