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Subject: Re: Ports requires pkg 1.6.0, but 1.5.6 is the latest available
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In-Reply-To: <20150929213632.GA23442@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> (Baptiste
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Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> writes:

> The change that was made was having the default packages on releases point to
> quarterly branch of the ports tree. This was noted in the release note.

Yes, but that really only helps people who already understand version
control. I'll try to come up with some text to add to the Handbook,
which currently assumes (for ports) that there is only head.