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[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 09/24/14 13:16, Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam at hiwaay.net> writes:
>
>> The portsnap messes with pkg's logic about what needs upgrading & what
>> doesn't, there have been other posts on this topic over the last
>> several weeks (notably from me)
> Aside from the fact that the package repositories lag behind the ports
> tree (which is unavoidable until someone manages to procure some
> infinitely fast computers on which the build clusters can run), I can't
> tell which posts are in question.
>
>>                                  .... Ports & Pkg's are usually updated
>> by the maintainers about weekly, ports often/usually on Wednesday,
>> Pkg's on Saturday.
> Maintainers make changes whenever they want (except when a release is
> being prepared, in which case major changes are discouraged, a process
> often referred to as a "slush"). Packages are being built continuously,
> and a full set seems to be taking three or four days at the moment.
>
>>                     My experience is that if you wait until Saturday,
>> your 'pkg-upgrade' will work as desired & you will be off to the
>> races.
> If your particular ports updates happen to be getting committed
> mid-week, that sounds about right. The build cluster will be fairly
> certain to have built them into packages three days later. But, again,
> there's no actual schedule.
>
>>         Alternatively, you can 'pkg install -yf ....' your pkg & move
>> on immediately .... In general, for me, you should do any pkg-upgrades
>> *before* you mess w/ ports.
> I would expect that to be less annoying than the other way around.


Agreed :-) .... That was kinda the point of the whole post. I do think I 
am pretty close to right on my days of (most) commits, I got that from 
an earlier (a few weeks) post on this very topic ....


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