Is pkg quarterly really needed?

[Kurt Jaeger]

Hi!

> On Thu, Apr 20, 2017 at 1:30 AM, Julian Elischer <julian at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > quarterly however is broken because the pkg mirors discard it all at the
> > time of update.

> Do they have to?
> Why couldn't pkg mirrors keep say, the four latest quarterly sets
> all the time?

Because the URL for the latest quarterly is one stable URL.

If an enduser wants to access a particular quarterly, the enduser
needs to edit the repo URL. Which probably kills approx. 95%
of the use-cases.

One could do some process where every quarterly repo communicates
it's quarterly URL back to the client accessing it and pkg automagically
adapts the repo URL, but that does sound fragile, too.

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