Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:11:15 +0000 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: David Newman <dnewman@networktest.com> Subject: Re: frequency of pkg updates Message-ID: <2028260.lLgEXe72zl@curlew.lan> In-Reply-To: <54BFFB43.7060208@networktest.com> References: <54BFFB43.7060208@networktest.com>
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On Wednesday 21 Jan 2015 11:17:23 David Newman wrote: > How often is the FreeBSD pkg repository updated? > > Asking because 'sudo pkg audit' sometimes shows vulnerabilities in one > or more packages, yet 'sudo pkg update && sudo pkg upgrade -f <pkg > name>' offers only to reinstall the vulnerable version. > > An updated pkg can take days to show up. The ports tree is updated much > faster, but I'm trying to move to pkg where possible. (Yes, I know I > could run poudriere and create a pkg repository, but I'm asking here > about FreeBSD's pkg system.) > > This is on 10.1-RELEASE-p4 amd64. You can check on the state of the latest build at http://beefy2.isc.freebsd.org/#latest_builds for AMD64 and http://beefy1.isc.freebsd.org/#latest_builds for i386. Any ports which have been updated since the start of the build won't appear in the repository until the following week's build. -- Mike Clarke
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