Ports question ....
William A. Mahaffey III
wam at hiwaay.net
Fri Aug 29 23:09:31 UTC 2014
On 08/29/14 17:58, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 29/08/2014 23:45, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> I just tried that, very nice. What is the correspondence, if any,
>> between ports & pkgs ? i.e. if a new port shows up, is a new pkg for
>> that port soon to follow (if that port is pkg'ed) ? TIA ....
> About 4 to 10 days, depending.
>
> pkg builds for the FreeBSD repos start each Wednesday night using a
> snapshot of the ports tree at that time, and the newly compiled pkgs are
> usually published the following weekend.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Matthew
>
Excellent, Thx :-) ....
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William A. Mahaffey III
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