When does a newly committed port become installable via 'pkg'?

[James E Keenan]

On 01/28/2018 04:01 PM, Freddie Cash wrote:
> On Jan 28, 2018 12:15 PM, "James E Keenan" <jkeenan at pobox.com 
> <mailto:jkeenan at pobox.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Earlier today (about 0910 EST), thanks to Po-Chuan Hsieh, a new port
>     I had created was committed to the repository.  It was very quickly
>     visible at these locations:
> 
>     https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/devel/p5-CPAN-Testers-Common-Client/
>     <https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/devel/p5-CPAN-Testers-Common-Client/>
>     https://www.freshports.org/devel/p5-CPAN-Testers-Common-Client/
>     <https://www.freshports.org/devel/p5-CPAN-Testers-Common-Client/>
> 
>     ... and it has since become visible here as well:
> 
>     https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=p5-CPAN-Testers-Common-Client&stype=all&sektion=all
>     <https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=p5-CPAN-Testers-Common-Client&stype=all&sektion=all>
> 
>     However, when I try to install that package onto my system (a VM
>     running FreeBSD-11.0-RELEASE), I continue -- six hours later -- to
>     get messages saying that the package cannot be located.
> 
>     #####
>     $> sudo pkg update
>     Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
>     FreeBSD repository is up to date.
>     All repositories are up to date.
> 
>     $> sudo pkg install p5-CPAN-Testers-Common-Client
>     Updating FreeBSD repository catalogue...
>     FreeBSD repository is up to date.
>     All repositories are up to date.
>     pkg: No packages available to install matching
>     'p5-CPAN-Testers-Common-Client' have been found in the repositories
>     #####
> 
>     What am I not understanding about this process?
> 
>     Thank you very much.
>     Jim
> 
> 
> The default pkg repository is the "quarterly" one (see 
> /usr/local/etc/pkg) which only gets new ports every 3 months.
> 
> You can switch to the "latest" repo, which gets rebuilt every Tuesday, I 
> believe.
> 

Thanks.  Upon reading 'man 5 pkg.conf', which identified the system-wide 
configuration file as being located as /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf.  That file 
does contain this entry:

#####
url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/quarterly",
#####

That file also states that to modify that file, create a new file as:

#####
/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
#####

I have done so, and in that file I have placed this entry:

####
FreeBSD: {
   url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
   mirror_type: "srv",
   signature_type: "fingerprints",
   fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
   enabled: yes
}
#####

Should that suffice?

Thank you very much.
Jim Keenan