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| <para>The rest of this section demonstrates common binary | <para>The rest of this section demonstrates common binary | ||||
| package management tasks which can be performed using | package management tasks which can be performed using | ||||
| <application>pkg</application>. Each demonstrated command | <application>pkg</application>. Each demonstrated command | ||||
| provides many switches to customize its use. Refer to a | provides many switches to customize its use. Refer to a | ||||
| command's help or man page for details and more | command's help or man page for details and more | ||||
| examples.</para> | examples.</para> | ||||
| </sect2> | </sect2> | ||||
| <sect2 xml:id="quarterly-latest-branch"> | |||||
| <title>Quarterly and Latest Ports Branches</title> | |||||
| <para>The <literal>Quarterly</literal> 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 <literal>Latest</literal> branch provides 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 <literal>url:</literal> | |||||
| line.</para> | |||||
| <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> | ||||
| <para>Information about the packages installed on a system | <para>Information about the packages installed on a system | ||||
| can be viewed by running <command>pkg info</command> which, | can be viewed by running <command>pkg info</command> which, | ||||
| when run without any switches, will list the package version | when run without any switches, will list the package version | ||||
| for either all installed packages or the specified | for either all installed packages or the specified | ||||
| package.</para> | package.</para> | ||||
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