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Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:11:52 -0700
Subject: Re: Ports requires pkg 1.6.0, but 1.5.6 is the latest available
From: "Roger Marquis" <marquis@roble.com>
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For the vast majority of ports and packages it won't make any difference
whether they are installed are from head, quarterly and/or archives (in my
experience, options dependencies aside).  Isn't the issue here a dependency on
the version of 'pkg' being enforced by 'pkg'?  If so shouldn't this be fixed
in 'pkg'?

Roger Marquis


Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> 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.