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examples.
+
+ Quarterly and Latest Ports Branches
+
+ The Quarterly branch provides users
+ with a more predictable and stable experience for port and
+ package installation and upgrades. This is done essentially
+ by only allowing non-feature updates. Quarterly branches aim
+ to receive security fixes (that may be version updates, or
+ backports of commits), bug fixes and ports compliance or
+ framework changes. The Quarterly branch is cut from HEAD at
+ the beginning of every (yearly) quarter in January, April,
+ July, and October. Branches are named according to the year
+ (YYYY) and quarter (Q1-4) they are created in. For example,
+ the quarterly branch created in January 2016, is named 2016Q1.
+ And the Latest branch provides the latest
+ versions of the packages to the users.
+
+ To switch from quarterly to latest run the following
+ commands:
+
+ &prompt.root; cp /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
+
+ Edit the file
+ /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf
+ and change the string quarterly to
+ latest in the url:
+ line.
+
+ The result should be similar to the following:
+
+ FreeBSD: {
+ url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
+ mirror_type: "srv",
+ signature_type: "fingerprints",
+ fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
+ enabled: yes
+}
+
+ And finally run this command to update from the new
+ (latest) repository metadata.
+
+ &prompt.root; pkg update -f
+
+
+
Obtaining Information About Installed Packages