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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:58:21 +0100
From: Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Binary packages (from ports) how often are they built ?
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It depends entirely on the version that you are after.  There is a release set of packages that isn't updated, but the stable set are updated fairly regularly.

Have a look in man pkg_add for some environment variables to set to change the site/set you are downloading.

Chris