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	examples.</para>	examples.</para>
	</sect2>	</sect2>

		<sect2 xml:id="quarterly-latest-branch">
		<title>Quarterly and Latest Ports Branches</title>

		<para>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. Quarterly branch cut from HEAD at the
		bcrUnsubmitted Done Inline Actions s/Quarterly branch/The Quarterly branch is/ bcr: s/Quarterly branch/The Quarterly branch is/
		beginning of every (yearly) quarter in January, April, July,
		and October, and the name for the binary package sets that
		bcrUnsubmitted Not Done Inline Actions What do you mean with the name part of this sentence (the one after the comma)? bcr: What do you mean with the name part of this sentence (the one after the comma)?
		are produced from these branches. 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
		bcrUnsubmitted Done Inline Actions I'd enclose "Latest" with <literal> tags (same above for "Quarterly"). bcr: I'd enclose "Latest" with <literal> tags (same above for "Quarterly").
		the latest versions of the packages to the users.</para>

		<para>To switch from quarterly to latest run the following
		commands:</para>

		<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>cp /etc/pkg/FreeBSD.conf /usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf</userinput></screen>

		<para>Edit the file
		<filename>/usr/local/etc/pkg/repos/FreeBSD.conf</filename>
		and change the string <emphasis>quarterly</emphasis> to
		<emphasis>latest</emphasis> in the url: line.</para>
		bcrUnsubmitted Done Inline Actions Enclose the "url:" in <literal> tags, too. bcr: Enclose the "url:" in <literal> tags, too.

		<para>The result should be similar to the following:</para>

		<programlisting>FreeBSD: {
		url: "pkg+http://pkg.FreeBSD.org/${ABI}/latest",
		mirror_type: "srv",
		signature_type: "fingerprints",
		fingerprints: "/usr/share/keys/pkg",
		enabled: yes
		}</programlisting>

		<para>And finally run this command to update from the new
		(latest) repository metadata.</para>

		<screen>&prompt.root; <userinput>pkg update -f</userinput></screen>

		</sect2>

	<sect2 xml:id="pkgng-pkg-info">	<sect2 xml:id="pkgng-pkg-info">
	<title>Obtaining Information About Installed Packages</title>	<title>Obtaining Information About Installed Packages</title>

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