Packages vs Ports

[Arthur Barlow]

I've recently run into a new problem.  Pkg_version show that there is a new
version of Firefox 3.5.  However, when I try to recompile it, I get an error
that the system has run out of swap space, even though I allocated a 512M
slice for a machine with 256M RAM.  Anyway, when I used to recompile Firefox
it would take over 8 hours.  So I figured that I would just delete it and
download the new compiled version in a package.  But, the package is still
not updated yet, and it's been over a week.  How long does it usually take
for packages to catch up to ports?

P.S. I'm using FreeBSD 7.2 on an old Gateway Pentium III machine with a 40G
harddrive.