update /usr/ports to same version as pkg upgrade?

[Michael Schnell]

Hello,

On Wed, 1 Feb 2017, Ronald Klop wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to update the /usr/ports tree to the same version as is used 
> by the default pkg repositories?
> I use some ports which are not distributed as pkgs. When I 'portsnap auto' 
> the ports tree gets new updates which are not in the pkgs yet and I don't 
> want to rebuild those.
> I'm also able to fetch the ports tree by svn if that gives more possibilities 
> than portsnap for this.
>
> So, is there a way to know from which svn revision the pkgs are build by the 
> FreeBSD servers? Or something similar.

I once raised a request for this on github and it was "mostly"
implemented, but I never found how it works:
https://github.com/freebsd/pkg/issues/328


Greetings
Michael